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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The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the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