History: Chapter 14
The principle of popular sovereignty meant that...
Each territory would decide for itself whether to allow slavery or not.
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter
Which of the following was not a position on slavery held by free-soil supporters?
Free-soilers believed that American slavery had natural geographic limits beyond which it would not spread.
Why did Abraham Lincoln win the presidential election of 1860?
He took advantage of the split in the Democratic Party and won a plurality of the votes.
What was the cornerstone of the southern defense of slavery?
It was up to the states to deal with slavery because there was nothing in the constitution to forbid it.
Who won the 1856 presidential election?
James Buchanan
Which of the following candidates ran as Democrats in the 1860 election?
John Breckinridge and Stephen Douglas
Which territory had two competing governments in the 1850s?
Kansas
Which provision was ridiculed in the Lecompton Constitution?
None of these
What did the Supreme Court rule in Fred Scott vs. Sandford?
Slaves were not citizens; therefore, they could not sue in federal courts.
Which of the following statements concerning John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry is true?
Southern Fire Eaters were incensed.
Which provision of the Compromise of 1850 antagonized the north the most?
The Fugitive Slave Act
What was the reaction of many northerners to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act?
They began to support abolition.
Why did many northern states pass personal liberty laws?
They wanted to minimize the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law.
Who were the Conscience Whigs?
They were the northern, anti-slavery wing of the party led by Senator William Seyward of New York.
What was the final blow to the Whig party?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
What did Preston Brooks do?
He assaulted Charles Sumner on the capital floor.
What was James Buchanan's position on slavery?
He believed it was wrong, but the federal government had no right to interfere with it.
How did Zachary Taylor dismay both Southern Democrats and Whigs?
He believed that states and territories should be able to decides for themselves whether to have slavery or not.
Besides his assault on Harper's Ferry in 1859, what else had John Brown done to gain notoriety?
He massacred five pro-slavery settlers in Kansas
Which of the following was a provision of the Fugitive Slave Act?
Fugitive slaves had no right to a jury trial.
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
A small strip of land in southern Arizona and New Mexico purchased from Mexico for a railroad line.
In the 1860 presidential election, the Republic Party adopted an economic program that included which of the following features?
All of these
What did Abraham Lincoln declare in the course of his campaign against Stephen Douglas in 1858?
All of these
What prompted the events that came to be known as "Bleeding Kansas"?
All of these.
Why was the main issue that unified the otherwise diverse elements of the new Republican Party in the 1850s?
Bleeding Kansas
The Ostend Manifesto called for the U. S. acquisition of what place?
Cuba
What did the Know-Nothing party argue?
Immigrants should be strictly limited.
Which of the following divisions was NOT part of Henry Clay's bill?
It called for the abolition of slavery in states west of the Mississippi.
What did the Lecompton Constitution do?
It protected the property rights of Kansas slave holders and provided for a referendum on the admission of more slaves.
What was the significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
It provoked a more aggressive anti-southern and anti-slavery position in those who were uncertain on the slavery issue.
Which of the following is NOT true about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It rendered the terms of the Compromise of 1850 void.
What happened to the American political system during the 1850s?
It underwent a realignment because the Republicans emerged as a major party.
What happened because of the 1858 Illinois senatorial election?
Stephen Douglas lost crucial political support in the southern states.
Which statement concerning the presidential election of 1852 is true?
The Whig party lost much of its support in the south and began to break up.
Which of the following is NOT a reason why the Know-Nothing party declined rapidly?
The party's radical policy of open membership and public meetings.
Which statement is an element of the compromise proposed by John Crittenden?
There should be a constitutional amendment to prohibit federal interference with southern slavery.
Which statement best describes the Republican Party position in the election of 1860?
There should be no further extension of slavery into the territories.
After the 1860 presidential election, why did Republicans reject any further compromise on the slavery issue?
They believed that moderate southerners would soon regain control and that compromise on matters of basic principle was tantamount to surrender.
In the 1850s, what did senators who "filibustered" do?
They organized unofficial military expeditions to Central America.
Which of the following is one of the reasons that the Whig party began to disintegrate and decline in the 1850s?
They suffered an internal North/South split over the slavery issue.