Chapter 5 The Civil War Era   1. The belief that the United States should stretch from sea to sea was called ____________     A) popular sovereignty.     B) Manifest Destiny.     C) "Fifty-four forty or fight."     D) abolitionism.   2. Which group of Americans first settled the Oregon Territory in the 1830s?     A) American missionaries     B) Stephen F. Austin and his followers     C) the British government     D) Mormon settlers   3. Why didn't the Wilmot Proviso become a law?     A) It was defeated in the House of Representatives.     B) It was vetoed by the president.     C) It became unnecessary because the problem of slavery was solved.     D) It was defeated in the Senate.   4. What was the meaning of popular sovereignty?     A) Voters within existing states should decide whether slavery would be allowed in the territories.     B) Slavery should be forbidden in all the territories.     C) Voters within the territories should decide whether slavery would be allowed within their borders.     D) Slavery should be allowed in all territories.   5. Why was California's application for statehood such a controversial issue?     A) It had too few people to become a state.     B) Few people wanted to move as far away as California to live.     A) Gold was discovered in California.     B) It would create an imbalance in the number of free and slave states in the Senate.   6. Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?     A) Slave trade would be forbidden in the District of Columbia.     B) California would be admitted as a slave state.     C) The Mexican Cession would be divided into two territories.     D) The Fugitive Slave Law would be strengthened.   7. Which of the following statements about slavery is true?     A) Marriages between enslaved persons were legal.     B) Southerners didn't even try to defend the use of enslaved persons on their plantations.     C) Freed African Americans were allowed to live their lives without restrictions.     D) The majority of Southerners were not slaveholders.   8. Which of the following helped to nullify the Fugitive Slave Law in the North?     A) the Dred Scott decision     B) the Kansas-Nebraska Act     C) personal liberty laws     D) the Compromise of 1850   9. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Compromise of 1850?     A) It forbade slavery in the trans-Missouri region.     B) It made Kansas and Nebraska slave states.     C) It allowed the possibility of slavery below the Missouri Compromise Line.     D) It allowed the possibility of slavery above the Missouri Compromise Line.   10. What is conscription?     A) the government set up by seceded states     B) a military strategy by which an area is sealed off     C) formal withdrawal from an organization     D) drafting men for military service   11. Why did Robert E. Lee decide to reject Abraham Lincoln's offer to lead the Union armies?     A) He was not trained to lead soldiers.     B) He did not want to lead any troops.     C) He felt loyalty to the federal government in Washington was more important than loyalty to his home state of Virginia.     D) He felt his loyalty to Virginia and his family was more important.   12. Who was the Confederate president?     A) Jefferson Davis     B) Abraham Lincoln     C) Ulysses S. Grant     D) Robert E. Lee   13. Which Union general led his troops on a destructive march through the Georgia countryside in 1864?     A) General Ulysses S. Grant     B) General Robert E. Lee     C) General William T. Sherman     D) General George McClellan   14. What did Abraham Lincoln mean when he said, "It was not best to swap horses while crossing the river"?     A) Lincoln liked horseback riding.     B) It would be wise to try to gain control of the Mississippi River.     C) Lincoln expressed his bitterness toward the Southern states that had seceded.     D) It would not be wise to elect a different president while the war was going on.   15. Where did the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's troops take place?     A) Washington, D.C.     B) Richmond     C) Atlanta     D) Appomattox Court House