Chapter 15 Test U.S. History
The purpose of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was for them to:
Announce their candidacies for Senator and gain support.
What changes occurred to political parties in the U.S. after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed?
New party formed which included Free-Soilers, northerners, Democrats, and anti-slavery Whigs.
What did southerners fear after John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?
There might be another attack.
Why did southern states decide to secede from the Union after the election of 1860?
They thought the southern economy and way of life would be better.
Why did members of the Free-Soil Party support the abolition of slavery?
They worried that slave labor would mean fewer jobs for white workers.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is an?
Anti-slavery novel.
What did Harriet Beecher Stowe do to influence the debate over slavery?
Exposed the harsh reality of slave life.
The Wilmot Proviso spurred a debate that showed growing sectionalism, which refers to:
Favoring the interests of a region over those of a country.
Why was John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry a failure?
He did not have enough supporters.
What was the position of South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun in the debate for the Compromise of 1850?
He wanted the southern states to secede peacefully.
What were the major points in the Fugitive Slave Act?
It was a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free states.
What was the main result of the Pottawatomie Massacre?
Kansas collapsing into civil war.
When Lincoln was elected in 1860, he stated that the government would:
Not start a war with the Southern states.
On the night of May 24, 1856, five pro-slavery men were killed in Kansas. What is this event called?
Pottawatomie Massacre
The Wilmot Proviso was an idea proposed to Congress to:
Prohibit slavery in all parts of the Mexican Cession.
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney argued in 1857 that Congress could not prohibit someone from taking slaves into a federal territory because:
Slavers were considered property and property was defended by law.
What did the Freeport Doctrine state?
Slavery in the territories should be left up to the people.
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln accused Democrats of wanting to:
Spread slavery across the nation.
In leading an armed resistance in Virginia in 1859, John Brown was attempting to:
Steal weapons and bring them to local slaves.
What was the significance of the election of 1860?
That the South was losing its national political power in the U.S.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to:
The Republican Party forming.
What were the consequences of the Compromise of 1850?
The balance between free and slave states ended.
In 1854, the Republican Party rallied around:
The issue and the spread of slavery.
The Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford established that:
The miss comp's restrictions on slavery was unconstitutional.
What aspects of the Fugitive Slave Act horrified northerners?
The northerners disliked the idea of trial without jury, disapproved of commissioners higher fees for returning slaves, and that some free African Americans had been captured and sent to the south.
How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the United States?
The question of slavery in Utah and New Mexico would be decided by popular sovereignty.
Introduced in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act:
Was a plan to divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories and allow the people in the territories to decide on the question of slavery.
What helped inspire Harriet Beecher Stowe to write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
When she met fugitive slaves and learned the cruelties about slavery in Ohio.
