(6) Quiz 1
first African slaves arrived in Jamestown
1619
Southerners who owned slaves made up ______ of the population
25%
won 1860 Presidential election
Abraham Lincoln
Clay's plan to end sectionalism
American Plan
struggle between proslavery and antislavery groups
Bleeding Kansas
The vice president who resigned to lead the fight against the 1832 tariff was:
Calhoun
extend 36° 30' line to California
Crittenden Compromise
sued for his freedom
Dred Scott
"Bleeding Kansas" ended with over ten thousand deaths and $2 million in property damage.
False
Nat Turner was a runaway slave who headed the abolitionist movement in the North.
False
Slave owners always treated their slaves properly, providing them with adequate food, clothing, and shelter.
False
The South opposed tariffs because it was feared they would hurt its industry and factory workers.
False
surrender began Civil War
Fort Sumter
published North Star
Frederick Douglass
Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
All the following men were candidates in the 1860 election except:
Henry Clay
president of Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
wanted to establish an abolitionist republic
John Brown
All the following states left the Union after the battle of Fort Sumter except:
Kentucky
proslavery constitution in Kansas
Lecompton Fraud
Select the following states that left the Union after the battle of Fort Sumter.
North Carolina Virginia Arkansas
formed to prevent spread of slavery
Republican Party
What impact did the cotton gin have upon the South?
Slavery became popular in the South
Select the following that were candidates in the 1860 election.
Stephen A. Douglass Abraham Lincoln John Breckinridge John Bell
proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglass
Why did the North favor high tariffs?
To protect Northern industries
It was determined that a state could not leave the Union.
True
John Brown was found guilty of treason for his attack on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
True
More emancipation societies existed in the South than in the North before 1830.
True
Preston Brooks attacked Senator Sumner with a cane because of Sumner's criticism of Senators Butler and Douglas.
True
Slaves were more profitable than indentured servants because they were permanent possessions of their masters.
True
Southern slaveowners claimed that their slaves were better off than the factory workers in the North.
True
Southerners said they needed slaves in order to maintain their economy.
True
The Doctrine of Nullification stated that the individual states did not have to obey Federal laws.
True
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
wanted slavery abolished
abolitionists
At Harper's Ferry, Virginia, John Brown seized the:
arsenal
servitude in exchange for passage to the United States
indentured
Allowing settlers in a territory to decide for themselves if they wanted slavery or not was called:
popular sovereignty
The expanding West desired all of the following except:
slavery
In the North, the Dred Scott decision was:
unpopular