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Unit 6 Practice test

Questions 1 and 2 refer to the excerpt below.

Wade in the Water, wade in the water children. Wade in the Water. God’s gonna trouble the water. Who
are those children all dressed in Red? God’s gonna trouble the water. Must be the ones that Moses led.
God’s gonna trouble the water.

Who are those children all dressed in White? God’s gonna trouble the water. Must be the ones of the
Israelites. God’s gonna trouble the water.

Who are those children all dressed in Blue? God’s gonna trouble the water. Must be the ones that made
it through. God’s gonna trouble the water.

“Wading in the Water,” folksong

1. The song excerpt above is most directly related to which of the following strategies of the
abolitionist movement?
(5 points)
The purchasing of slaves from slaveholders for the purposes of freeing them
Active armed revolt by enslaved Africans
Support for slaves attempting escape
Petitioning Congress for legislation limiting slavery in newly acquired territories

2. The issues referenced in the song excerpt above led most directly to which of the following?
(5 points)
The Compromise of 1850
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The Dred Scott Decision
The Mexican War

Questions 3 - 5 refer to the excerpt below

“[T]he condition of the African race throughout all the States where the ancient relation between the
two [races] has been retained enjoys a degree of health and comfort which may well compare with
that of the laboring population of any country in Christendom; and, it may be added that in no other
condition, or in any other age or country, has the Negro race ever attained so high an elevation in
morals, intelligence, or civilization.”

John C. Calhoun, political leader, 1844

3. Which of the following groups would have been most likely to support Calhoun’s views expressed
in the excerpt? (5 points)
Members of nativist political parties
Members of the Whig Party
Southern landowners
Northern industrialists

4. Which of the following most directly undermines Calhoun’s assertions? (5 points)

Many slaves adopted elements of Christianity.
Many slaves engaged in forms of resistance to slavery.

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Abolitionist societies encountered difficulty organizing in Southern states.

A majority of White Southerners were not slaveholders.

5. In the 1840s and 1850s, the views expressed by Calhoun most directly contributed to (5 points)
the United States acquisition of new territory in the West
increased sectional divisions between the North and the South
the development of sharecropping and tenant farming in the South
the rise of voluntary organizations to promote religious reform

Question 6 refers to the excerpt below.

I am aware, that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will
be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or
speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm;
tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually
extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a
cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a
single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD. ...

William Lloyd Garrison –The Liberator 1831

6. A significant similarity between William Lloyd Garrison’s approach and Frederick Douglass’
approach to the issue of slavery was: (5 points)
Each of them had their own approach to being practical concerning their goals.
They both advocated and inspired senseless violence to achieve their goals
There were both extremely unpopular during the years in which they worked to abolish
slavery.
They both indicated urgency to shake people out of their complacency even if this was
offensive to their audiences.

Questions 7-8 refer to the following maps

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7. Which of the following contributed most directly to the change depicted in the map? (5 points)
Overcultivation of depleted arable land in the Southeast caused slaveholders to relocate
their plantations to more fertile lands west of the Appalachians
An increase in the importation of African slaves allowed cotton production to shift beyond
the Appalachians
The price of slaves decreased and became more affordable for yeoman farmers living
beyond the Appalachians

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The effectiveness of the Abolitionist movement in South Carolina caused many plantation
owners to move out of South Carolina and shift cotton production further to the West

8. One major effect of the trends seen in map (5 points)

Southerners began to argue that slavery was a positive good and a part of the Southern
way of life.
The South surpassed the North in industrial textile manufacturing
Southern farmers became more self sufficient and withdrew from the national market
economy
Anti-slavery societies became widespread throughout the South

Questions 9-11 refer to the following quotation.

“Every one acquainted with southern slaves knows that the slave rejoices in the elevation and
prosperity of his master; and the heart of no one is more gladdened at the successful debut of young
master or miss on the great theatre of the world than that of either the young slave who has grown up
with them and shared in all their sports, and even partaken of all their delicacies—or the aged one who
has looked on and watched them from birth to manhood, with the kindness and most affectionate
solicitude, and has ever met from them all the kind treatment and generous sympathies of feeling,
tender hearts. Judge Smith…said in an emergency he would rely upon his own slaves for his defence—
he would put arms into their hands, and he had no doubt they would defend him faithfully. In the late
Southampton insurrection, we know that many actually convened their slaves and armed them for
defence, although slaves were here the cause of the evil which was to be repelled.”

Thomas Dew, President of the College of William and Mary, 1832

9. The author’s sentiments in the excerpt above can best be understood as (5 points)
supportive of the continuation of the international slave trade.
opposition to the continued restrictions against citizenship for slaves.
an expression of Southern pride in the institution of slavery.
an argument for the gradual emancipation of slaves

10. The excerpt above was most likely a response to which of the following? (5 points)
The outlawing of the international slave trade
The abolitionist criticism of the treatment of slaves in the South
The creation of free African American communities
The creation of free African American communities

11. By the eve of the Civil War, sentiments such as those expressed in the excerpt above most
clearly formed the basis for (5 points)
the Southern defense of slavery as a positive good.
Southern arguments in favor of states’ rights.
abolitionist campaigns to end slavery in the United States.
abolitionist campaigns to end slavery in the United States.

Questions 12 - 15 refer to the excerpt below.

“The expiring months of the Polk Administration in 1848–49 gave a dark augury of the storms to come.
Congress no sooner met in December than the agitation of the slavery question recommenced; and
even when the surface of the political sea for a few days grew calm, beneath it all was commotion and
intrigue. Polk in his last annual message dwelt upon the importance of promptly supplying Territorial
governments for California and New Mexico. Three modes of settlement, he suggested, were open.
One, which he preferred, was to carry the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific; another, to let the

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people of the Territories decide the slavery question when they applied for admission; and the third, to
lay the issue before the Supreme Court.”

Allan Nevins, historian, Ordeal of the Union, 1947

12. Which of the following was a cause of the conflict described by Nevins? (5 points)
U.S interest in expanding trade with Asia
Substantial numbers of international migrants
The annexing of western lands in support of the concept of Manifest Destiny
The Abolitionist movement

13. This passage describes the development of which of the following? (5 points)
Sectionalism
Abolitionism
Nativism
The Market Revolution

14. The patterns described in the excerpt most directly foreshadowed which of the following
developments?
(5 points)
A growing number of individuals assisting slaves’ escapes
The development of the free soil movement
An expansion of the Northern economy dependent on free labor
An expansion of the Northern economy dependent on free labor

15. The territorial changes discussed by Nevins in the excerpt most directly resulted from? (5 points)
The Mexican-American War
The migration of immigrants westward
The land acquisitions from Americans Indians
The purchase of land from Spain and France

Questions 16 - 17 refer to the excerpt below.

“Away, away with all these cobweb tissues of the rights of discovery, exploration and settlement, . . .
[The American claim] is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of
the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty. . .
.”

John L. O’Sullivan, Democratic Review, 1845

16. In this passage, the writer uses the term “manifest destiny” to mean that (5 points)
Neighboring territories will resent U.S. expansion.
America’s growth can be compared to a tree.
Self-government leads to expansion
Expansion is not only good but bound to happen.

17. All of the following are examples of the impact of manifest destiny EXCEPT (5 points)
“Oregon Fever”.
The election of James K. Polk in 1844
The Mexican War.

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The Gag Rule

Questions 18 - 20 refer to the excerpt below.

“This infamous decision of the Slaveholding wing of the Supreme Court maintains that slaves are within
the contemplation of the Constitution of the United States, property; that slaves are property in the
same sense that horses, sheep, and swine are property; that the old doctrine that slavery is a creature
of local law is false; that the right of the slaveholder to his slave does not depend upon the local law,
but is secured wherever the Constitution of the United States extends; that Congress has no right to
prohibit slavery anywhere; that slavery may go in safety anywhere under the star-spangled banner;
that colored persons of African descent have no rights that white men are bound to respect; that
colored men of African descent are not and cannot be citizens of the United States.…”

Frederick Douglass, Speech, 1857

18. Which of the following contributed most directly to the concerns expressed by Douglass?
(5 points)
The Compromise of 1850
Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Dred Scott Decision
The addition of the Mexican Cession to the United States

19. This excerpt would have been most likely to have found support among which of the following
groups? (5 points)
Members of Congress
Immigrants from Germany
Women’s rights advocates
Supports for the idea of the Manifest Destiny

20. The idea that “Congress has no right to overturn slavery anywhere” was eventually overturned
with passage of which of the following? (5 points)
The 13th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
The 16th Amendment

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