AP MCWS CH 19 - AP U.S. History Chapter 19 Multiple-choice...

AP U.S. History
Chapter 19 – Multiple-choice Worksheet
Make the best choice.
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin
a) intended to show the cruelty of slavery
b) was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
c) comprised the recollections of a long-time personal witness to the evils of
slavery
d) received little notice at the time it was published but became widely read
during the Civil War
e) portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery
2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin may be described as
3. As a result of reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin , many northerners 4. When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom’s Cabin , their
governments
5. Hinton R. Helper’s book The Impending Crisis of the South argued that those who
suffered most from slave labor were
a) African Americans
b) southern planters
c) northern Republican abolitionists
d) western farmers
e) non-slaveholding southern whites

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6. In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as
7. In “Bleeding Kansas” in the mid-1850s, ______________ was/were identified
with the proslavery element, and _________________was/were associated with
the antislavery free-soilers.