04.02 The Firebell Rings

How did slavery and nativism contribute to the event shown on this map? (5 points) Question 1 options: 1) The issues led to the breakdown of the existing political parties and realignment of parties along sectional lines. 2) The major candidates in all regions of the country were against both the expansion of slavery and immigration. 3) The issue of slavery divided the Whig Party and was the basis for forming the American, or Know-Nothing, Party. 4) The major candidates were all from the Republican Party because the party divided into sections due to nativism.

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How did abolitionists react to the Kansas-Nebraska Act? (5 points) Question 8 options: 1) They praised popular sovereignty as the best way to end slavery and encouraged others to support it. 2) They set up a society to encourage people to move there so they could vote against allowing slavery. 3) They vilified Stephen Douglas as a Southern sympathizer, ruining his reputation and political future. 4) They claimed that it would lead to violence and suggested that anti-slavery settlers leave the area.

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"The people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, A.D. 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States, by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States, fully justified this State in then withdrawing from the Federal Union; but in deference to the opinions and wishes of the other slaveholding States, she forbore at that time to exercise this right. Since that time, these encroachments have continued to increase, and further forbearance ceases to be a virtue."—From the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union, 1860 According to this excerpt, what issue was the main basis for South Carolina's secession? (5 points) Question 6 options: 1) Election results 2) States' rights 3) Nullification 4) Slavery

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How did people in the North react to the Fugitive Slave Law? (5 points) Question 7 options: 1) Most accepted it as an unavoidable evil to achieve the Compromise of 1850 and so followed the law. 2) Some refused outright to honor it, and some abolitionists actively helped runaway slaves to evade it. 3) Few tried to resist the law, and many actually spoke out against those who did as troublemakers and thieves. 4) A majority openly denounced the law and found ways to support the Underground Railroad to Canada.

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What is the connection between the event shown on this map and the start of the American Civil War? (5 points) Question 5 options: 1) The 1860 election had no clear winner, causing deadlock in Congress and the walkout of Southern leaders. 2) The election of Abraham Lincoln sparked outrage in the South and led to the secession of several states. 3) During the campaign, Abraham Lincoln promised to end slavery as his first priority if elected president. 4) During the campaign, Southern members of Congress threatened secession if Breckinridge did not win.

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Why do images of John Brown, such as this one, vary so much in their portrayal of the man? (5 points) Question 2 options: 1) Few images of Brown exist from the time, so artists can only guess at his actual appearance. 2) Brown was convicted and executed as a criminal, yet he was seen as a hero by many abolitionists. 3) Few supporters of Brown existed during his time, yet that changed after his death. 4) Brown was suspected of insanity, and some artists focus on that instead of his acts.

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How did railroad building lead to increased division between the North and South? (5 points) Question 3 options: 1) The South had no interest in building railroads and saw the North as destroying the landscape by initiating them. 2) The South needed railroads to expand markets for their crops, but Northern businessmen refused to invest there. 3) The North was increasingly a manufacturing economy and tied with the West, while the South remained agrarian. 4) The North built railroads to the West to encourage settlement there by those who were against expanding

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How did the Panic of 1857 reveal the sectional nature of the economy? (5 points) Question 9 options: 1) The North saw little effect, while the South was devastated. 2) The West saw little effect, while the East was devastated. 3) The North was more severely affected than the South. 4) The West was more severely affected than the East. Save

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In John C. Calhoun's eyes, what made slavery "a positive good"? (5 points) Question 4 options: 1) It led to more rapid economic and industrial development than was possible in the regions without it. 2) Slaves who ran away to the North suffered great hardships that led many to return to their former masters. 3) It contributed to the strength of the Union because it caused regions to depend so clearly on each other. 4) Slaves had a better quality of life than wageworkers in factories, who had no health care or other protections.

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Why was the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision significant? (5 points) Question 10 options: 1) It said that free people who assisted runaway slaves could be captured and sold into slavery themselves. 2) It provided that any enslaved person who traveled into a free territory or state would be forever free. 3) It gave free African Americans the right to seek justice or compensation for their experiences in slavery. 4) It ruled that African Americans were not citizens and therefore had no rights or protection under federal law.

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