ICC US History Module 11

Which of the following was not one of the issues leading to the Compromise of 1850?

The Dred Scott ruling.

The Lecompton Constitution

protected the property rights of Kansas slaveholders and provided for a referendum on the admission of more slaves.

Before his assault on Harpers Ferry in 1859, John Brown had gained notoriety by

publishing an anti-slavery journal that savagely attacked the South.

Why did Abraham Lincoln win the 1860 presidential election?

He took advantage of the split in the Democratic Party and won a plurality of the vote.

Which provision did the Lecompton constitution include?

A referendum would be held to decide whether to allow more slaves into the state.

Why did "Bleeding Kansas" occur?

All of these choices (Proslavery forces stole the election for the state legislature.Antislavery forces took up "Beecher's Bibles."John Brown led a brutal murder of five proslavery men.The nation's precarious sectional balance was in danger.)

Which of the following was a provision of the Fugitive Slave Act?

Alleged fugitive slaves had no right to a jury trial.

What was the reaction of many northerners to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act?

Although some Northerners saw the act as the price of saving the Union, many more saw it as a vile monument of infamy and therefore took up the abolition cause.

In the 1850s, the main issue that unified the otherwise diverse elements of the new Republican party was

Bleeding Kansas

The Ostend Manifesto called for the United States to acquire

Cuba

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

Fort Sumter

Which of the following was not an opinion on slavery held by free soil supporters?

Free-soilers believed that American slavery had natural geographic limits beyond which it would not spread.

What did the Know-Nothing Party argue?

Immigration should be strictly limited.

What was the significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin?

It pushed many waverers to an aggressive antislavery stance.

Which of the following is not true about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

It rendered the terms of the Compromise of 1850 void.

Which of the following candidates ran as Democrats in the 1860 election?

John Breckinridge and Stephen Douglas

Which territory had two competing governments in the 1850s?

Kansas

What was the final blow to the Whig party?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

As a result of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry,

Southern slaveholders were incensed.

In the course of his campaign against Stephen Douglas in 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared all of the following except

The best way to preserve the Union was to ensure that slavery was legal in all states, North and South.

After the 1860 presidential election, why did Republicans reject any further compromise on the slavery issue?

They believed that moderate southerners would soon regain control, and that compromise on matters of basic principle was tantamount to surrender.

In the 1860 presidential election, the Republican party adopted an economic program that included all of the following features except

a national income tax.

The Gadsden Purchase was

a small strip of land in southern Arizona and New Mexico purchased from Mexico for a railroad line.

Congressman Preston Brooks

beat Charles Sumner with a cane.

The principle of popular sovereignty mean that

each territory would decide for itself whether to allow slavery or not.

Many northern states passed personal-liberty laws in order to

minimize the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law.

During the 1850s, the American political system

underwent a realignment as the Republicans emerged as a major party.

In Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves

were not citizens; therefore, they could not sue in federal courts.