Quiz 19

Match each presidential candidate in the 1860 election below with his party's position on the slavery question. A. Abraham Lincoln 1. extend slavery into the territories B. Stephen Douglas 2. ban slavery from the territories C. John Breckinridge 3. preserve the Union by compromise D. John Bell 4. enforce popular sovereignty

A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3

Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Dred Scott decision, (B) Lincoln-Douglas debates, (C) "Bleeding Kansas," (D) Harpers Ferry raid.

C, A, B, D

As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates,

Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate.

Stephen A. Douglas argued in his Freeport Doctrine during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that

action by territorial legislatures could keep slavery out of the territories despite the Dred Scott decision.

In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to

call upon the slaves to rise and establish a kind of black free state.

James Buchanan won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1856 because he

could distance himself and the Democrats from the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

The Lecompton Constitution was written so that Kansas

could only apply for statehood by permitting slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin

dramatized the wickedness of slavery.

The real significance of the election of 1856 was that it

foreshadowed an ominous sectional clash over slavery in the election of 1860.

Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 Republican party presidential nomination in part because he

had fewer enemies than front-runner William Seward.

President James Buchanan declined to use force to keep the South in the Union for all of the following reasons except that

he believed that the Constitution allowed secession.

The political career of Abraham Lincoln could best be described as

largely a failure until his meteoric rise after 1854.

The central plank of the Know-Nothing (American) party in the 1856 election was

nativism.

Hinton R. Helper's book The Impending Crisis of the South argued that those who suffered most from slavery were

nonslaveholding southern whites.

The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the complete failure of ____ in the territories.

popular sovereignty

The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by

proslavery southerners.

When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, the people of South Carolina

rejoiced because they now had a clear excuse to secede.

In the presidential election of 1856, the Republicans

revealed astonishing strength for a brand-new party.

As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, many northerners

swore that they would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law.

In "Bleeding Kansas" in the mid-1850s, ____ was/were identified with the proslavery element, and ____ was/were associated with the antislavery free-soilers.

the Lecompton Constitution; the New England Emigrant Aid Company

In 1856, the breaking point that first sparked the "mini-Civil War" over slavery in Kansas was

the burning of Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders.

The roots of Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery sentiments lay in

the evangelical religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening.

In declaring their independence, the Confederate States relied heavily on the example of

the principles of self-determination of the Declaration of Independence.

Secessionists broke away from the Union because

they were tired of abolitionist attacks, they were dismayed by the success of the antislavery Republican party, they believed that the South could finally achieve economic independence from the North, and they saw the political balance permanently tipping against them.

The government of the Confederate States of America was first organized in

Montgomery, Alabama.