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Who supported the Wilmot Proviso?
Northerners and Southerners who were morally opposed to slavery
What happened to most fugitive slaves once they were captured?
They were peacefully returned to their masters.
Which Senator argued that, when it came to ending slavery, there was "a higher law than the Constitution"—the law of God?
William Seward
The American Party, or Know-Nothings, appeared in the mid-1850s as
a reaction to large numbers of Roman Catholics coming to the United States.
Per the Compromise of 1850, which state entered the union as a free state?
California
Who, according to Abraham Lincoln, had the responsibility to stop the spread of slavery?
Congress
How did Stephen A. Douglas respond in 1857 when proslavery forces in Lecompton, Kansas, drafted a constitution that many felt was fraudulent?
Douglas came out against the proslavery constitution.
In 1854, Stephen A. Douglas sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act and included a section repealing the Missouri Compromise because
Douglas needed southern support to pass his legislation.
What did the Supreme Court rule in its 1857 Dred Scott decision?
Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States.
Why did the Democrats remain a national organization after 1954?
Gains in the South offset losses in the North.
What made Abraham Lincoln an attractive candidate for the Republican nomination?
He represented the crucial state of Illinois.
Why did Zachary Taylor anger southerners when he became president in 1849?
He urged Congress to admit California and New Mexico to the union as free states.
What happened to John Brown after his raid on Harper's Ferry?
He was executed.
How did the Mexican-American War affect American politics?
It divided the nation based on the issue of slavery in the territories.
How did the increasingly confident Republican Party prepare for the election of 1860?
It expanded its platform to address other issues.
What effect did the shift to "geographic" parties have on political debate in the United States?
The shift increased polarization.
In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln
reassured the South that he had no right to interfere with slavery where it existed.
The presidential election of 1856 revealed the
strength of the new Republican Party.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president because he had
strong support in the more populous free states.
Southerners felt so much hostility toward the Republican Party during the presidential election of 1860 that
ten states refused to allow Lincoln's name to appear on the ballot.
What was the result of Preston Brooks's caning of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner in 1856?
It further inflamed sectional passions over the institution of slavery.
What effect did John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry have on the South?
The raid indicated that abolitionists would use violence to overthrow slavery.
What was the result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Abraham Lincoln became nationally known.
Which Southerner argued that "I consider slavery much more secure in the Union than out of it?"
Alexander Stephens
What was a requirement of the Fugitive Slave Act, part of the Compromise of 1850?
All citizens were expected to assist officials in apprehending runaway slaves.
Who did the Democrats nominate as their presidential candidate in the election of 1856?
Buchanan
How did James Buchanan respond as the secession crisis loomed over the final weeks of his presidential administration?
Buchanan remained in Washington and did nothing.
What happened when the first territorial legislature in Kansas met?
Legislators enacted tough proslavery laws.
How did more moderate southern Democrats respond to the choice of John C. Breckenridge as presidential nominee?
Moderate Democrats organized the Constitutional Union Party.
What did the Whigs do in an attempt to reunite their party during the presidential campaign of 1848?
Remain silent on the issue of slavery
What did Douglas argue in what became known as the Freeport Doctrine?
Settlers could ban slavery by not passing the laws necessary to protect slave property.
What did Abraham Lincoln personally believe about slavery?
Slavery was morally wrong.
What did the Wilmot Proviso of 1846 propose?
Slavery would be allowed to expand only into the area below the southern boundary of Missouri.
Which was the first state to secede from the Union after Lincoln's election?
South Carolina
Why did the slave states of the Upper South initially reject secession?
The Upper South did not have as great a stake in slavery as the states in the Lower South.
How did American politics change in the aftermath of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Whig Party disintegrated.
Which issue in the debate of 1849-1850 led to the Compromise of 1850?
The balance of power between the North and the South in Congress
How did the Dred Scott decision increase sectional tension?
The decision lent credence to the belief in the North that a Slave Power conspiracy existed.
What did the federal government do to the Plains Indians who lived in what became Nebraska?
The federal government pushed them farther west.
How did a Nashville convention of southern businessmen shock the nation in 1860?
The meeting called for the reopening of the African slave trade.
Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) influence Northerners' attitudes toward slavery?
The novel put forth a stirring moral indictment of slavery.
What was the common thread that wove together northern men into the Republican Party in 1854?
The opposition to the extension of slavery into any territory of the United States
What happened when Democrats met to choose a presidential candidate in Charleston, South Carolina?
The party divided into southern and northern factions.
During the debates, Stephen A. Douglas depicted Abraham Lincoln as
an abolitionist who loved blacks.
Early in the struggle to win Kansas, proslavery supporters
invaded Kansas to control the election through fraud and intimidation.
Northern women supported the Republican Party By
marching in Republican parades.
In the mid-1850s, Abraham Lincoln's search for a political home was based on his
opposition to the extension of slavery in the United States.
Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan proposed the doctrine of popular sovereignty, a measure that would allow
people who settled the territories to decide whether or not they wanted slavery.
The United States negotiated the Gadsden Purchase in 1853
to support the dream of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad.
