APUSH: Unit 5 Test Questions & Answers. 100 proven pass rate. 2023

APUSH: Unit 5 Test Questions & Answers. 100 proven pass rate. 2023 Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty?" - The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there. Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was - Possible British recognition of the Confederacy Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877? - The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election. In the 1850's, the South differed from the North in - Fewer European immigrants The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to - Place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to - The natural population increase of American-born slaves Which of the following statements about the Dred Scott decision is correct? - It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States. Which of the following best describes the policy of the government of Mexico toward Texas? - It encouraged American settlement in Texas in the 1820's and early 1830's. Which of the following would have most likely have expressed opposition to the idea of Manifest Destiny? - Members of the Whig party in Congress during the Mexican War Which of the following most accurately describes the Stephen Douglas' idea of popular sovereignty? - The status of slavery in a territory would be determined by the voters in the territory. All of the following figured prominently in debates over the Compromise of 1850 EXCEPT the - Extension of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska territories Which of the following was a major factor in the decline of the Whig party in the 1850's? - Know-Nothing movement A political effect of the fighting in Kansas in 1855 and 1856 was to - Further divide the Democratic Party The supreme court's decision in the Dred Scott case outraged public opinion in the North chiefly because it - Removed restrictions against the spread of slavery into the Western Territories The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased sectional tension because it - Reopened the issue of slavery in a territory North of the 36'30 The Lincoln-Douglas debates resulted in all of the following EXCEPT - Increased support for Douglas in the South John Brown's primary purpose in attacking Harper's Ferry was to - Start a slave rebellion in Virginia In the 1860 election, what was the position of Lincoln and the Republican Party on slavery? - Slavery should not be allowed to expand into territories All of the following statements about the election of 1860 are accurate EXCEPT: - Lincoln won election because of the split in the Democratic Party Northern advantages in the Civil War included all of huge following EXCEPT - General agreement over was aims All of the following were part of the initial Union strategy to win the Civil War EXCEPT - Emancipation of slaves in the seceded states The Confederate government was able to achieve which of the following goals? - Frequent victories over Union armies President Lincoln was reluctant to emancipate the slaves the first year of the Civil War because - He feared that emancipation would drive the border states out of the Union Which of the following best describes an immediate effect of the Emancipation Proclamation? - The abolition of slavery in confederate territory became on of the North's war goals