AP US HISTORY AMSCO CHAPTER 13
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
D - answer 1. Which of the following most accurately describes Stephen Douglas' idea of
popular sovereignty?
(A) A section of western land would be given free to anyone who would homestead it for a
certain number of years.
(B) Only citizens of the United States would be permitted to settle territories acquired from
Mexico.
(C) Public lands in the new territories would be open on a first-come first-served basis.
(D) The status of slavery in a territory would be
determined by the voters in the territory.
(E) New territories would be closed to both slaves and free blacks.
E - answer 2. All of the following figured prominently in debates over the Compromise of 1850
EXCEPT the
(A) provision for a new Fugitive Slave Law
(B) slave trade in the District of Columbia
(C) admission of California into the Union as a free state
(D) future of slavery in the Mexican Cession territories
(E) extension of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska territories
D - answer 3. Which of the following was a major factor in the decline of the Whig party in the
1850s?
(A) death of John Calhoun
(B) election of Zachary Taylor
(C) Lincoln-Douglas debates
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
D - answer 1. Which of the following most accurately describes Stephen Douglas' idea of
popular sovereignty?
(A) A section of western land would be given free to anyone who would homestead it for a
certain number of years.
(B) Only citizens of the United States would be permitted to settle territories acquired from
Mexico.
(C) Public lands in the new territories would be open on a first-come first-served basis.
(D) The status of slavery in a territory would be
determined by the voters in the territory.
(E) New territories would be closed to both slaves and free blacks.
E - answer 2. All of the following figured prominently in debates over the Compromise of 1850
EXCEPT the
(A) provision for a new Fugitive Slave Law
(B) slave trade in the District of Columbia
(C) admission of California into the Union as a free state
(D) future of slavery in the Mexican Cession territories
(E) extension of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska territories
D - answer 3. Which of the following was a major factor in the decline of the Whig party in the
1850s?
(A) death of John Calhoun
(B) election of Zachary Taylor
(C) Lincoln-Douglas debates
