Unit 7 civil war

All of the following contributed to the growth of the free African-American population in the United States in the early 19th century EXCEPT?

Federal constitutional provisions for emancipation

The Missouri compromise did which of the following?

Allowed Maine to enter the union as a free state

In the antebellum period, free African-Americans were?

Able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination

As a result of the publication of Uncle Tom's cabin in 1852?

Abolitionism gained ground in the north

The election of 1848 is significant because it?

Demonstrated the power of the free soil idea to disrupt the political party system

The logic and reasoning employed by Southerners in seceding from the union borrowed heavily from the?

Declaration of Independence

The compromise of 1850 did which of the following?

Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law

Prior to the Civil War a transformation occurred in the workforce of the new England textile mills as new England farm girls were replaced by?

Irish immigrants

The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in?

Kansas

Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision?

National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories

Southern slave owners viewed Abraham Lincoln's victory in the presidential election of 1860 as a threat to slavery because he?

Oppose the extension of slavery

The Republican Party originated in the mid-1850s as a sectional party committed to which of the following?

Opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories

The doctrine advocated by Lewis Cass and Stephen A. Douglas that the people of a territory , under the principles of the Constitution, should themselves determine the status of slavery in the territory was known as?

Popular sovereignty

Which of the following Best describes the attitudes of southern whites toward slavery during the middle 19th century?

Slavery was a benefit to both white's and black's

The slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight," which helped get James K. Polk elected president referred to?

The dispute between Britain and the United States over the border between American Oregon and British Canada

Southern critics of slavery most often asserted that?

The plantation economy made the South a colony of the North

The Wilmont Proviso specifically provided for?

The prohibition of slavery and lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican war

The Wilmont Proviso specifically provided for?

The prohibition of slavery in land acquired from Mexico in the Mexican war

The Republican Party campaign platform of 1860 called for?

The restriction of slavery from the territories

Which of the following provisions of the compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850s?

The strengthen fugitive slave law

Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850s?

The strengthened fugitive slave law

Which of the following best describes the position of slavery of most Northerners during the sectional crises of the 1850s?

They were willing to accept slavery where it existed but proposed further expansion to the territories

"Let southern oppressors tremble... I shall strenuously contend or immediate enfranchisement... I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice," who said this?

William Lloyd Garrison said this in his liberator (publication)

In 1840 the American anti-slavery society split into fractions because?

William Lloyd Garrison's advocacy of woman's rights & pacifism alienated some members