SJA APUSH Period 5 UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?
a. its call for immediate emancipation of all slaves
b. its opposition to the Dred Scott decision
c. its desire to dissolve the Missouri Compromise
d. its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
e. its move to annex Cuba for the expansion of American slavery - CORRECT ANSWER -
d. its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s:
a. led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials
b. included no slaves, because Mexico had banned slavery in its territory
c. was in communities whose American-born residents were called Tejanos by their Mexican
neighbors
d. took place without approval from the Mexican government
e. did not exceed the Mexican population there until the United States annexed Texas in 1845 -
CORRECT ANSWER - a. led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican
officials
In general, Catholics supported the temperance movement. - CORRECT ANSWER - False
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid on
the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?
a. Joseph Lane
b. Henry Ward Beecher
c. John Brown
d. Robert E. Lee
e. Frederick Douglass - CORRECT ANSWER - c. John Brown
, From 1848 to 1860, most of the railroad construction was in what region?
a. Midwest
b. West Coast
c. Southeast
d. Northeast
e. Southwest - CORRECT ANSWER - a. Midwest
When Democrats demanded the "reannexation" of Texas in 1844, they:
a. implied that Texas had once been part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase
b. were seeking to take the slavery issue out of the presidential campaign
c. neglected to say anything about the status of Oregon
d. were consciously appealing to northern Whigs
e. realized their stand would not be very popular in the South - CORRECT ANSWER - a.
implied that Texas had once been part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase
In California after the Mexican-American war, landowners of Spanish heritage had to adjust to a
new identity as if they were immigrants. - CORRECT ANSWER - True
Nativism emerged as a major political movement in 1854, with the sudden appearance of the
Liberty Party. - CORRECT ANSWER - False
The Fugitive Slave Act provided for the return of runaway slaves to their owners. - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?
a. President John Tyler's antislavery policies caused a major proslavery backlash led by John C.
Calhoun
b. As the 1848 constitutional deadline for ending the African slave trade drew near, Americans
became obsessed with slavery
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?
a. its call for immediate emancipation of all slaves
b. its opposition to the Dred Scott decision
c. its desire to dissolve the Missouri Compromise
d. its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
e. its move to annex Cuba for the expansion of American slavery - CORRECT ANSWER -
d. its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s:
a. led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials
b. included no slaves, because Mexico had banned slavery in its territory
c. was in communities whose American-born residents were called Tejanos by their Mexican
neighbors
d. took place without approval from the Mexican government
e. did not exceed the Mexican population there until the United States annexed Texas in 1845 -
CORRECT ANSWER - a. led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican
officials
In general, Catholics supported the temperance movement. - CORRECT ANSWER - False
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid on
the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?
a. Joseph Lane
b. Henry Ward Beecher
c. John Brown
d. Robert E. Lee
e. Frederick Douglass - CORRECT ANSWER - c. John Brown
, From 1848 to 1860, most of the railroad construction was in what region?
a. Midwest
b. West Coast
c. Southeast
d. Northeast
e. Southwest - CORRECT ANSWER - a. Midwest
When Democrats demanded the "reannexation" of Texas in 1844, they:
a. implied that Texas had once been part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase
b. were seeking to take the slavery issue out of the presidential campaign
c. neglected to say anything about the status of Oregon
d. were consciously appealing to northern Whigs
e. realized their stand would not be very popular in the South - CORRECT ANSWER - a.
implied that Texas had once been part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase
In California after the Mexican-American war, landowners of Spanish heritage had to adjust to a
new identity as if they were immigrants. - CORRECT ANSWER - True
Nativism emerged as a major political movement in 1854, with the sudden appearance of the
Liberty Party. - CORRECT ANSWER - False
The Fugitive Slave Act provided for the return of runaway slaves to their owners. - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?
a. President John Tyler's antislavery policies caused a major proslavery backlash led by John C.
Calhoun
b. As the 1848 constitutional deadline for ending the African slave trade drew near, Americans
became obsessed with slavery
