Ch 13 test
The Lecompton Constitution sent to Congress included
Both votes
Which character in Uncle Tom's Cabin transformed the slavery question from an abstract political issue into a personal tragedy?
Eliza Harris
During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln made it clear that he was for political, not social, equality for blacks.
False, 44. Lincoln stated that he had no interest in political nor social equality for blacks.
The constitutional party was the reemergence of an old faction of the Free Soil Party.
False, It was a faction of the Whig party, not the Free soil party
Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln played crucial roles in the passage of the Compromise of 1850.
False, Only the first three were crucial to the passing of the compromise.
The Dred Scott decision delighted Southern Democrats, Northern Democrats, and moderate abolitionists.
False, Southerners were delighted while moderate northerners were outraged.
President pierce did not actively enforce the Fugitive Slave Act as much as President Fillmore.
False, both presidents vigorously enforced the law.
Stephen Douglas was considered a traitor by most Southern Democrats because he refused to support the admission of Kansas as a free state.
False, he opposed admitting Kansas as a slave state, which angered the slaveholding south
Fredrick Douglass supported John Brown's 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry.
False, he thought that the idea was crazy and believed it would fail
11.Senator Stephen Douglas was the first to use "popular sovereignty" as he sought support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act
False, others had used the term before him.
Abraham Lincoln's main political goal after the debates with Stephen Douglas was to become the president of the United States.
False,Lincoln had intended to be in the U.S Senate and had mixed feelings towards presidency.
Proslavery supporters in Kansas used all of the following techniques to sway votes in their favor EXCEPT
Gerrymandering
Proslavery supporters in Kansas organized their own convention in
Lecompton
The candidate for president of the American Party in the 1856 election was
Millard Fillmore
This U.S.president thought that the Compromise of 1850 was a "final settlement" of North-South tensions.
Millard Fillmore
Reactions to Lincoln's inaugural address was
Mixed amongst Northerners
The Wilmot Provisi
Passed the House, not the Senate
The enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
Resulted in a firestorm unexpected by its proponents
The only southern state to unanimously vote for secession was
South Carolina
President James Buchanan took decisive action to stop secession during the transition period from November to March.
The Buchanan administration was known for being indecisive.
"Bleeding Kansas" reinforced already deeply held opinions in the North and South.
True
At the Ottawa debate, Stephen Douglas argued that the Founding Fathers established a government divided into Free and Slave States.
True
Unlike the Whig and Democratic parties, the Republican Party represented only one point of view on slavery.
True
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election by
Winning both the popular vote and the required Electoral College votes
All of the following were part of the Republican party's economic program EXCEPT
a tariff to strengthen industry
Southern-leaning presidents from Polk to Pierce supported economic issues EXCEPT
internal improvements