Ch 18-20 Multiple Choice

Under the terms of the Compromise of 1850,

California was admitted to the Union as a free state, and slavery in Utah and New Mexico territories would be left up to popular sovereignty.

The proposed direct admission of California into the Union, without passing through territorial status, was dangerously controversial because

California's admission as a free state would destroy the equal balance of slave and free states in the U.S. Senate.

Southerners were especially enraged by abolitionists' funding of antislavery settlers in Kansas because

Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska had seemed to imply that Kansas would become a slave state.

Southerners seeking to expand the territory of slavery undertook filibustering military expeditions to acquire

Nicaragua and Cuba.

Which of the following was not among the Border States?

Oklahoma

It appeared that the Compromise of 1850 would fail to be enacted into law when

President Zachary Taylor suddenly died and the new president Fillmore backed the Compromise.

Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor because

Sumner had used abusive language to describe the South and a South Carolina senator.

The four states that joined the Confederacy only after Lincoln's call for troops to suppress the rebellion in April 1861 were

Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.

Among the advantages the Union possessed at the beginning of the Civil War was

a continuing influx of immigrant manpower from Europe.

The most significant effect of the Fugitive Slave Law, passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, was

a sharp rise in northern antislavery feeling.

In the election of 1848, the response of the Whig and Democratic parties to the rising controversy over slavery was

an attempt to ignore the issue by shoving it out of sight.

The firing on Fort Sumter had the effect of

arousing Northern support for a war to put down the South's rebellion.

Among the significant advantages the Confederacy possessed at the beginning of the Civil War was

better-trained officers and soldiers.

Northern women made particular advances during the Civil War by

entering industrial employment and providing medical aid for soldiers on both sides.

The financial and economic collapse of 1857 increased northern anger at the South's refusal to support

higher tariffs and free western homesteads for farmers.

As submitted to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution was designed to

insure that the future of slavery would be determined according to Douglas's principle of popular sovereignty.

Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise primarily because

it left open the possibility that slavery could expand south into Mexico, Central America, or the Caribbean.

Lincoln argued that his assertion of sweeping executive powers and suspension of certain civil liberties was justified because

it was necessary to set aside small provisions of the Constitution in order to save the Union.

The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into violent antislavery politics by

killing five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.

Many of the new millionaires who emerged in the North during the Civil War

made their fortunes by providing poorly made, shoddy goods to the Union armies.

Southerners hated the Underground Railroad and demanded a stronger federal Fugitive Slave Law especially because

northern toleration of slave runaways reflected a moral judgment against slavery.

Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because

northerners' celebration of Brown as a martyr seemed to indicate their support for slave insurrection.

Lincoln at first declared that the war was being fought

only to save the Union and not to free the slaves.

The primary goal of the Treaty of Kanagawa, which Commodore Matthew Perry signed with Japan in 1854 was

open Japan to American trade.

During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party

opposed the expansion of slavery but did not threaten to attack slavery in the South.

The Gadsden Purchase was fundamentally designed to

permit the construction of a transcontinental railroad along a southern route.

Northerners especially resented Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act because it

repealed the Missouri Compromise prohibiting slavery in northern territories.

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court

ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories because slaves were private property of which owners could not be deprived.

Lincoln's plan for the besieged federal forces in Fort Sumter was to

send supplies for the existing soldiers but not to add new reinforcements.

Within two months after the election of Lincoln

seven southern states had seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.

Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South contended that

slavery did great harm to the poor whites of the South.

In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic Party

split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential candidate.

The response to the Civil War in Europe was

support for the South among the upper classes and for the North among the working classes.

In the Indian Territory (Oklahoma), most of the "Five Civilized Tribes"

supported the Confederacy and sent warriors to fight for it.

The South's weapon of King Cotton failed to draw Britain into the war on the side of the Confederacy because

the British found sufficient cotton from previous stockpiles and from new sources like Egypt and India.

The U.S. minister in London warned that the United States would declare war against Britain if

the British government delivered the Laird ram warships if had built for the Confederacy.

The greatest winner in the Compromise of 1850 was

the North.

The term Butternut region refers to

the areas of southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois that opposed an antislavery war.

The conflict over slavery after the election of 1852 led shortly to

the death of the Whig party.

The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for

the dramatic rise of the Republican party.

The crucial Freeport Question that Lincoln demanded that Douglas answer during their debates was whether

the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision.

Popular sovereignty was the idea that

the people of a territory should determine for themselves whether or not to permit slavery.

Rapid formation of an effective state government in California seemed essentially urgent because

there was no legal authority to suppress the violence and lawlessness that accompanied the California gold rush.

Senator Daniel Webster's fundamental view regarding the issue of slavery expansion into the West was that

there was no need to legislate because climate and geography guaranteed that plantation slavery could not exist in the West.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

was strongly rooted in religiously based antislavery sentiments.