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According to the Republican Platform of 1860, which of the following events would they NOT support?
Kansas Nebraska Act
The cartoon was most likely a response to which event?
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
Missouri Compromise
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to
Allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there
The Ostend Manifesto was an attempt to expand US slave territory by purchasing
Cuba
Which event triggered the problem shown in the cartoon?
Application for statehood by California as a free state
Which of the following best describes the situation in Kansas during the 1850's?
As a result of popular sovereignty, Kansas became the site of much violence & bloodshed
The headline above represents a law created as part of which event?
Compromise of 1850
Which of the following principles was established by the case Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Congress could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories
The passage above is from which of the following?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Which of the following individuals/groups would likely support the above statement?
Free Soilers
The opening shots of the Civil War were fired at which location?
Ft. Sumter in Charleston South Carolina
The most persuasive instrument of anti-slavery propaganda written in response to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Support for slavery in the Southern states was based upon all the following reasons EXCEPT:
Most Southern White families owned slaves
The graph above refutes which of the following statements?
Most southern families held slaves
The Christiana Riot of 1851, the Oberlin Wellington Rescue of 1858, and Personal Liberty Laws were examples of
Northern abolitionist resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective of Frederick Douglass in the excerpt?
Northern abolitionists
The efforts of the Committee of 33 and the Committee of 13 were examples of
Political leaders growing radicalism and failure to compromise in 1860-61
The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly
Produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry
The Republican Party of the 1850s took which of the following positions on slavery?
Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new states
After the election of Abraham Lincoln as president, which was the first state to secede from the Union on Dec 20, 1861?
South Carolina
The poster above would most likely be created or supported by which group?
Southern Senators
One result of the Election of 1860 was,
States in the South began to secede from the Union
One reason for the result of the Election of 1860 was
The Democratic Party split its votes amongst two candidates
The excerpt from James Henry Hammond is most clearly an example of which of the following developments in the mid-19th century?
The growing tendency among Southern slaveholders to justify slavery as a positive good
According to the cart to the left, which statement is true of the antebellum period?
a majority whites in the South did not own slaves
Which of the following was NOT a part of the Compromise of 1850?
admitted Texas to the Union as a slave state
By the period 1820-1860, what had become the crop which dominated the Southern economy?
cotton
Which is true of the LeCompton Constitution?
it was the pro-slavery state constitution proposed for Kansas
The doctrine advocated by Lewis Cass and Stephen A. Douglas that the people of a territory, under principles of the Constitution, should themselves determine the status of slavery in their territory was known as
popular sovereignty
Which of the following events outraged pro-slavery Americans?
raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859
Which of the following was the most significant result of the Mexican-American War on the United States from 1848-1865?
re-ignited the slavery conflict in regards to the territories newly acquired from Mexico
The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) heightened the sectional crisis because it
repealed the Missouri Compromise
\During the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, the "Freeport Doctrine" introduced by Senator Douglas stated:
territories that did not wish to have slavery could ignore the Dred Scott decision and ban it
The poster above was created in response to which event?
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Which term can be most accurately applied to the situation in the quotation?
sectionalism
The actions of Fire Eaters, John Brown, Preston Brooks and Potawatame Creek in the Kansas territory during the latter part of the 1850s displayed:
The growth of radical tensions & violence concerning the expansion of slavery
John Brown's primary purpose in attacking Harpers Ferry was to
start a slave rebellion in Virginia
All of the following contributed to the Northern fears of a growing slave power conspiracy (slaveocracy) in the 1840s and 1850s EXCEPT:
the election of Abraham Lincoln as president
The attack in the Senate chamber on Charles Sumner by Congressmen Preston Brooks was caused by:
Brooks desire to defend his uncle Senator Butler from criticisms on the topic of slavery & "Bleeding Kansas" in a speech by Senator Sumner
In his "Southern Address" which led to the formation of the Nashville Convention after his March, 1850 death, John C Calhoun stated:
If the North would not respect the South's constitutionally protected right to own slaves and the expansion of the institution, it was time for the South to leave the Union.
Which of the following is an accurate statement about the Republican Party in the 1850s?
It was created in protest to the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
Which of the following was President during the period of Bleeding Kansas, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry and saw the first southern state to secede?
James Buchanan
Which of the following individuals would NOT support the ideas in the above poster?
John C. Calhoun
Which statement is true concerning the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Lincoln championed the prevention of the spread of slavery while Douglas supported popular sovereignty
Which is an accurate description of a "Free-Soiler"?
against the spread of slavery to new territories because less land will be available for poor whites
The process described in the passage above most directly led to political controversies in the 1840s and 1850s over the
expansion of slavery into newly acquired territories
In the presidential election of 1860, the major issue to Southern slave owners was the
extension of slavery
The two passages above concern which of the following?
failed attempts of political leaders to compromise and avoid secession in 1860
During the Mexican War, the proposed but never passed Wilmot Proviso stipulated which of the following?
slavery should be prohibited in the lands acquired as a result of the Mexican War
Which statement is true of the political beliefs of Abraham Lincoln prior to 1860?
slavery should not be extended into western territories
Which is an accurate statement of Southern "Fire Eaters" throughout the 1850s?
these radical Southern Democrats repeatedly threatened southern secession if the rights of slaverholders were not protected