test 4 history
Stephen Douglas' stance on__________ __________ in the territories to settle the question of the status of slavery appealed to Southerners and to some Northerners who wanted to keep the Union together.
popular sovereignty
The Republican Part began as both an anti- _______ and an anti- __________ party.
slavery immigration
Which of the following is NOT true concerning Stephen A. Douglas' bid for Senate reelection in 1858?
He lost his reelection bid in a tough campaign against Abraham Lincoln
Almost every __________ representative voted to pass the Wilmot Proviso during the first vote in the House of Representatives.
Northern
Which amendment to the Constitution did John C. Calhoun claim protected southerners' rights to take their slaves into western territories?
The Fifth Amendment
Which major American political party faded from the political scene in the 1850s?
Whigs
What was Abraham Lincoln's attitude toward slavery before 1860?
he wanted to limit its expansion into the territories
Moral arguments by leading religious leaders over slavery in both the North and the South made compromise on the subject nearly _____________.
impossible
The Election of 1856 revealed that the __________ states controlled the majority of the Electoral College.
northern
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
sectionalism in the United States ended for a short time
The Free Soil Movement was committed to what cause?
the containment of slavery
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the Sectional Crisis in the United States?
the end of Millard Fillmore's presidency
Which of the following was NOT a result of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry?
the people of the North grew more distrustful of all
Which Lincoln-Douglas debate became the most famous?
the second
What was the major characteristic of American political parties by the late 1850s?
they had their base of support wholly in one section of the United States
Before the 1850s, which of following was true of the Democratic Party?
they represented people in both the North and the South
What high profile Supreme Court case did the Republicans call the "greatest crime in the annals of the republic" and the Southerners hail as a great pro-slavery victory?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Which of the following is NOT true concerning the Republican Party in the election of 1856?
For their candidate, the party nominated Abraham Lincoln, a little-known politician from Illinois
The _________ __________ Movement became a powerful force in the 1850s and eventually contributed to the rise of the Republican Party.
Free Soil
What did Southerners believe to be true about the Panic of 1857?
It proved that the southern slave-based economic system was superior to the northern free-labor economy
What did Northerners believe to be true about the Panic of 1857?
It was the result of the tariff of 1857, a bill that Southern Democrats pushed through
Which President, sympathetic to the Southern stance within the sectional division, supported the Lecompton Constitution and the Dred Scott case?
James Buchanan
Which politician hoped to see the Continental Railroad go through the southern part of the United States and helped convince Congress to make the Gadsden Purchase?
Jefferson Davis
What were the results of the civil war that occurred in Kansas before 1856? [choose all that apply]
200 deaths millions of dollars in property damage
__________ __________ was the Republican candidate in the 1858 Senatorial race in Illinois.
Abraham Lincoln
In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriett Beecher Stowe portrayed slavery as morally wrong and a threat to the __________ __________.
American family
The ___________ _______________ claimed that no law was binding if local governments refused to enforce it.
Freeport Doctrine
The __________ ________________of 1820 allowed Americans to avoid a discussion of slavery in national politics.
Missouri Compromise
In 1856, antislavery extremist John Brown carried out a deadly reprisal in Kansas and murdered five pro-slavery settlers in what is known as the __________ __________.
Pottawatomie Massacre
Stephen A. Douglas tried to work with politicians from both the North and the South because he hoped to gain the Democratic nomination for __________ in 1856.
President
Which U.S. Lieutenant Colonel stormed John Brown's fort and took him prisoner during his raid on Harper's Ferry?
Robert E. Lee
Which of the following was NOT true concerning General Winfield Scott's nomination in the election of 1852?
Scott narrowly lost to Franklin Pierce in the Electoral College
Which politician hoped to see the Continental Railroad go through the northern part of the United States and helped organize the Kansas-Nebraska Act so that the railroad could pass through them?
Stephen A. Douglas
What was the Lecompton Constitution?
a document passed by the Kansas constitutional convention making Kansas a slave state
What contributed to the Panic of 1857? [choose all that apply]
a drop in Europe's demand for grain overproduction in northeastern manufacturing
The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed the voters to decide on the slavery question
by popular sovereignty
The __________ ________________stirred up the slavery debate again in 1854.
continental railroad
Due to an impassioned speech he gave right before his execution, John Brown became known as a __________ to the antislavery cause.
martyr
In the nineteenth century, which of the following was true of attitudes of many in the North? [choose all that apply]
they saw the South as a backward portion of the United States who practiced something that was a scar on the American character they were not willing to risk the Union to end the institution of slavery they wanted the end of slavery, but did not advocate racial equality
John Brown was hoping to launch slave __________ when he took the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
uprisings