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30. The ideas expressed in the passage above most directly led to political controversies in the 1870s and 1880sovera.new definitions of citizenship.b.the expansion of slavery into western territories.c.the proper balance between liberty and order.d.a sense of American cultural superiority.
31. President Lincoln would agree with all of the following statementsEXCEPT
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32. What was the unfinished task President Lincoln presented to the American people in the GettysburgAddress?
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33. Which of the following most closely reflects the meaning Lincoln hoped listeners would derive from hisGettysburg Address?
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instead of building up…our own States, cities, and towns, we have been spending our substance at the North,and are daily augmenting and strengthening the very power which now has us so completely under its thumb.…It is not so much in its moral and religious aspects that we propose to discuss the question of slavery, as in itssocial and political character and influences.”-Hinton R. Helper,The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It(New York: Burdick Brothers, 1857).The following four questions refer to the excerpt above
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APUSH Period 5 Multiple Choice Test
The questions below are based on the 1856 Sumner-Brooks political cartoon below.
1.The sentiments such as those depicted in the cartoon above most directly contributed to which of the following?
a.Breakdown in trust between sectional leaders
b.The willingness of abolitionists to use violence to achieve their goals
c.Repeated attempts at political compromise
d.The secession of Southern states
2.The cartoon above is best understood in the context of the
a.North’s increasing reliance on a free-labor manufacturing economy.
b.variety of proposals leaders made that ultimately failed to reduce sectional conflict.
c.willingness of abolitionists to use violence to achieve their goals.
d.weakening of loyalties to the two major parties.
Use the excerpt below to answer the questions that follow.
“The question is simply this: can a negro whose ancestors were imported into this country and sold as slaves become a
member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as
such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen, one
of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court of the United States in the cases specified in the Constitution? In the
opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of
Independence, show that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves nor their descendants, whether
they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people, nor intended to be included in the
general words used in that memorable instrument.”
3. The above opinion is a response to which Supreme Court case?
a.Plessy v. Ferguson
b.Amistad
c.Marbury v. Madison
d.Dred Scott v. Sanford
4. Based on the above excerpt, what can be concluded about the political status of individuals not considered free
persons?
a.Citizenship can be gained over time.
b.Their rights depend on location within the United States.
c.These individuals have some rights.
d.These individuals are considered property.