Gml 13 Tf

Front 1

By 1850, the South’s railroad networks accounted for approximately 50 percent of the lines in the nation.

Back 1

False

Front 2

John Brown was a Confederate hero martyred in his attempt to preserve what is now West Virginia as a slave state.

Back 2

False

Front 3

The Crittenden Compromise would have guaranteed the end to slavery in states where it existed already, after a seven-year cooling-off period.

Back 3

False

Front 4

A slave craftsman named Phillip Reed directed the assembly of the statue that adorns the top of the Capitol Building dome in Washington, D.C.

Back 4

True

Front 5

Born during George Washington’s presidency, by the time James Buchanan was elected president he had served in Pennsylvania’s legislature, in both houses of Congress, and as secretary of state under James K. Polk.

Back 5

True

Front 6

In their initial pronouncements, Confederate leaders stressed the preservation of white supremacy and slavery.

Back 6

True

Front 7

In 1860, the Republican Party platform sought to lower taxes by decreasing the tariff.

Back 7

False

Front 8

John Brown and his followers murdered five supporters of slavery at Pottawatomie Creek in May 1856.

Back 8

True

Front 9

In his 1858 senate campaign against Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln called for the immediate abolition of slavery.

Back 9

False

Front 10

The Know-Nothing Party was founded as a crusade against compulsory public education.

Back 10

False

Front 11

Another name for the American Party of 1854 was the Know-Nothing Party.

Back 11

True

Front 12

In the famous brawl on the floor of Congress, anti-slavery advocate Senator Charles Sumner was beat almost to death by Representative Preston Brooks over a debate regarding the legitimacy of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Back 12

False

Front 13

Margaret Garner, a slave who had escaped to Ohio, killed her own daughter rather than see her returned to slavery by federal marshals.

Back 13

True

Front 14

When the Mormons settled in Salt Lake City, Utah was part of Mexico.

Back 14

True

Front 15

Following the Dred Scott decision by the United States Supreme Court, Scott and his wife were immediately emancipated.

Back 15

True

Front 16

Victory over Mexico in the Mexican War added more area to the United States than had the Louisiana Purchase.

Back 16

True

Front 17

While the Fugitive Slave Act was a symbolic victory for the pro-slavery side, it was seldom enforced.

Back 17

False

Front 18

By the 1840s, southern leaders were convinced that slavery must expand or die.

Back 18

True

Front 19

For almost a decade, from the mid-1830s to 1845, the Republic of Texas was neither part of the United States nor part of Mexico.

Back 19

True

Front 20

Under the Fugitive Slave Act no slaves were ever actually returned to the South.

Back 20

False

Front 21

Following the Texas Revolt of 1835–36, the newly formed Republic of Texas resisted annexation by the United States.

Back 21

False

Front 22

By 1860, New York City had become the nation’s financial, commercial, and manufacturing center.

Back 22

True

Front 23

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans had no rights that whites were compelled to recognize.

Back 23

True

Front 24

During the mid-1850s, Kansas witnessed a series of bloody conflicts between pro- and antislavery groups.

Back 24

True

Front 25

Lincoln shared many of the racial prejudices of his day.

Back 25

True

Front 26

By 1860, nearly 300,000 men, women, and children had traveled overland to Oregon and California.

Back 26

True

Front 27

A series of revolutions in Europe—in England, France, Italy, and Germany—succeeded in permanently making those countries republics.

Back 27

False

Front 28

But as late as 1860, California’s male population outnumbered females by nearly three to one.

Back 28

True

Front 29

The Free Soil party contended that the western lands should stay "free" of settlement by the United States.

Back 29

False