APUSH practice ch. 18 & 19

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During the debate of 1850,..., argued that there was a "higher law" than the Constitution that compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery from the territories.

A. William H. Seward

Match each presidential candidate in the 1860 election below with his party's position on slavery

Abraham Lincoln - ban slavery from all territories Stephen Douglas - enforce popular sovereignty John Breckenridge - extend slavery into the territories John Bell - preserve the Union by compromise

In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with

An attack on Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders

Nativists in the 1850s were known for their

Anti-Catholic and anti foreign attitudes

In the election of 1860, the Constitutional Union Party was formed

As a middle-of-the-road party fearing for the break up of the union

Daniel Webster's famed Seventh of March speech in 1850 resulted in

B. A shift toward compromise in the North.

In lights of future evidence, it seems apparent that in the Compromise of 1850 the South made a tactical blunder by

B. Demanding a strong fugitive-slave law.

In 1848, the Free Soil party platform advocated all of the following except

B. Federal aid for internal improvements

The public liked popular sovereignty because it

B. Fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination

Many northern states passed "personal liberty laws"" in response to the Compromise of 1850's provision regarding

B. Slavery in the territories.

In his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster

B. Urged reasonable concessions to the South.

The Free Soldiers argues that slavery

B. Would cause more costly wage labor to wither away.

As a result of the panic of 1857, the South

Believed that "cotton was king."

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

C, A, B, D

For his position in his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster was viciously condemned by

C. Abolitionists

In order to maintain the two great political parties as vital bonds of national unity, party leaders

C. Avoided public discussionof slavery

In the debates of 1850, Senator William H. Seward, as a representative of the northern Young Guard, argued that

C. Christian legislators must obey God's moral law.

The Free Soldiers condemned slavery because

C. It destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise to self-employment

The man who opened Japan to the United States was

C. Lafcadio Hearn

Southern delegates met at a convention in Nashville in the summer of 1850 to

C. Propose a series of constitutional amendments.

In the 1848 presidential election, the Democratic and Whig parties

C. Remained silent on the issue of slavery

In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was

C. To be decided by popular sovereignty

Most American leaders believed that the only way to keep the new Pacific Coast territories from breaking away from United States control was

C. To grant the territories quick statehood.

The panic of 1857 resulted in

Clamor for a higher tariff

A scheme to acquire Cuba from Spain in the 1850's was known as the

D. Garden Purchase

The fatal split in the Whig party in 1852 occurred over

D. Homestead laws.

Stephen A. Douglas's plans for deciding the Alavert question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal of the

D. Northwest Ordinance

The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have

D. Prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War

By 1850, the South

D. Was relatively well off, politically and economically.

As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates,

Douglas defeated Lincoln for the Senate

Of those people going to California during the gold rush,

E. A distressingly high proportion were lawless men.

The Fugitive Slave Law included all of following provisions except

E. A higher payment if officials determined blacks to be runaways

An event which helped the cause of compromise in 1850, was when President Zachary Taylor

E. Decided not to run for re-election.

The event that brought turmoil to the administration of Zachary Taylor was the

E. Discovery of gold in California

For a short time in the 1850's William Walker, an American adventurer, seized control of

E. Puerto Rico

During the 1850s, slaves probably gained their freedom most frequently by

E. Self-purchase

In 1850, rebuffed as buyers, some Southern adventurers undertook to shake the tree of Manifest Destiny by attempting to seize ... by force.

E. The Dominican Republic

John C. Calhoun's plan to protect the South and Slavery involved

E. The election of two presidents, one from the North and one from the South

According to the principle of "popular sovereignty," the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by

E. The people in any given territory

Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by

E. The winner of the next presidential election.

The United States' scheme to gain control of Cuba was stopped when

E. U.S. Adventurers bungled their invasion

The You g Guard from the North

E. Were more interested in purging and purifying the Union.

In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the US Supreme Court

Expected to lay to rest the issue of slavery in the territories

In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to

Foment a slave rebellion

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

Had made fewer enemies than the 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

Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because

He had been elected on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery

The panic of 1857

Hit hardest among grain growers of the Northwest

President James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's Lecompton Constitution

Hopelessly divided the Democratic party

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin

Intended to show the cruelty of slavery

The presidential candidate of the new Constitutional Union party in 1860 was

John Bell

As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic instead of Republican because

Many did not want to lose their profitable business connections with the South

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

Montgomery, Alabama

The central plank of the Know-Nothing 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 slave labor were

Nonslaveholding southern whites

The clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed

Passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South

The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of _________________ in the territories

Popular sovereignty

The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by

Proslavery southerners

The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas

Protect slave owners already in Kansas

When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, their governments

Realized that the intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South would not be popular

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

Rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede

The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the South was

Repudiated by the South

In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as

Slave territory

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

Slavery would stay down if the people voted it down

The political career of Abraham Lincoln could best be described as

Slow to get off the ground

The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because of

Southern threats that a Republican victory would be a declaration of war

"Lame-duck" President James Buchanan believed that

The Constitution did not authorize him to force southern states to stay in the Union

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 Immigrant Aid Society

After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that

The North was dominated by "Brown-loving" Republicans

Secessionists supported leaving the Union because

They were dismayed by the success of the Republican party, they believed that the North would not oppose their departure, the political balance seemed to be tipping against them, they were tired of abolitionist attacks (all of the above)

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

Was not associated with the Kansas-Nebraska Act

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

Would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law

The United States victory in the Mexican War resulted in

e. All of the above

For a majority of northerners, the most outrageous part of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case was

that Congress had never had the power to prohibit slavery in any territory

Uncle Tom's Cabin may be described as

A powerful political force

Match each candidate in the 1856 election below with the correct party A. John C. Fremont B. Millard Fillmore C. Martin Van Buren D. James Buchanan 1. Democratic 2. Republican 3. Know-Nothing

A-2 B-3 D-1

Harriet Tubman gained fame

A. By helping slaves to escape to Canada

A southern route for the transcontinental railroad seemed the best because

A. Northern areas were organized territories.

The key focus for the major parties in the 1848 presidential election was

A. Personalities.

The election of 1852 was significant because it

A. Saw the victory of a pro-South northerner.

The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning

A. Slavery in the District of Columbia

The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession

A. Threatened to split national politics along North-South lines


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