Question 1

How did the Dred Scott decision increase sectional tension?

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A)   It lent credence to the belief in the North that a slave power conspiracy existed.
B)   It indicated that the issue of slavery could be determined in any territory long before the moment of statehood.
C)   It strengthened the Democratic party by unifying its northern and southern branches.
D)   It precipitated the resignation of Supreme Court justices from the North.

Question 2

Explain how America's political parties realigned between the late 1840s and mid-1850s. What were the most important issues behind this realignment?

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Question 3

Why was John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, so significant to both northerners and southerners in America?

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Question 4

Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)  influence northerners' attitudes toward slavery?

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A)   It included scientific evidence of the effects of slavery on those enslaved.
B)   It put forth a stirring moral indictment of slavery.
C)   Stowe argued that the North was not responsible for the institution of slavery.
D)   It suggested that northerners should pay for slaves to be sent to Africa.

Question 5

During their senatorial campaign debates, Douglas depicted Lincoln as

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A)   an abolitionist who loved blacks.
B)   uninformed on key issues.
C)   an avid supporter of the Fugitive Slave Act.
D)   a political chameleon who changed his opinions to get votes.

Question 6

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
-Government formed by Lower South states on February 7, 1861, following their secession from the Union. Secessionists argued that the election of a Republican to the presidency imperiled slavery and that the South no longer had political protection within the Union.

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A)  "Bleeding Kansas"
B)  Compromise of 1850
C)  Confederate States of America
D)  Dred Scott decision
E)  free laborF) Fugitive Slave ActG) Kansas-Nebraska ActH) Lincoln-Douglas debatesI) popular sovereigntyJ) Republican PartyK) Uncle Tom's CabinL) Wilmot Proviso

Question 7

Per the Compromise of 1850, which state entered the union as a free state?

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A)   New Mexico
B)   Utah
C)   California
D)   Arizona

Question 8

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
-Laws meant to resolve the dispute over the spread of slavery in the territories. Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act.

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A)  "Bleeding Kansas"
B)  Compromise of 1850
C)  Confederate States of America
D)  Dred Scott decision
E)  free laborF) Fugitive Slave ActG) Kansas-Nebraska ActH) Lincoln-Douglas debatesI) popular sovereigntyJ) Republican PartyK) Uncle Tom's CabinL) Wilmot Proviso

Question 9

Who supported the Wilmot Proviso?

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A)   Northerners who wanted to reserve new lands for white settlers
B)   Southerners who had concluded that slavery could not flourish in the West
C)   Northerners and southerners who were morally opposed to slavery
D)   Southerners who could not afford to relocate their plantations to the West

Question 10

Why did the Whigs lose the election of 1852?

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A)   Their "doughface" leaders were unpopular in the South.
B)   They insisted on going with the unpopular incumbent, Millard Fillmore, for president.
C)   They were less successful than the Democrats in bridging differences between northern and southern views.
D)   They tried to avoid controversy by having no real platform.

Question 11

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
-Term referring to work conducted free from constraint and according to the laborer's own inclinations and will.

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A)  "Bleeding Kansas"
B)  Compromise of 1850
C)  Confederate States of America
D)  Dred Scott decision
E)  free laborF) Fugitive Slave ActG) Kansas-Nebraska ActH) Lincoln-Douglas debatesI) popular sovereigntyJ) Republican PartyK) Uncle Tom's CabinL) Wilmot Proviso

Question 12

What common thread wove together northern men to form the Republican party in 1854?

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A)   The conviction that the federal government should increase social reform efforts
B)   The belief that Congress should move quickly to abolish slavery where it existed
C)   The belief that citizenship was too easily achieved by ill-prepared foreigners
D)   The opposition to the extension of slavery into any territory of the United States

Question 13

How did more moderate southern Democrats respond to the choice of John C. Breckenridge as presidential nominee?

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A)   They joined Republicans in an effort to preserve the Union.
B)   They attempted to revive the Whig party.
C)   They backed Breckenridge once he offered support for a federal slave code.
D)   They organized the Constitutional Union party.

Question 14

What was a requirement of the Fugitive Slave Act, part of the Compromise of 1850?

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A)   Any runaway slave who reached the North would be considered free.
B)   Slave commissioners received $10 for setting a slave free and $5 for returning a slave to his or her master.
C)   Slave owners needed three witnesses in order to claim a runaway.
D)   All citizens were expected to assist officials in apprehending runaway slaves.

Question 15

How did the increasingly confident Republican party prepare for the election of 1860?

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A)   It expanded its platform to address issues beyond slavery.
B)   It focused on the slavery issue with more intensity than ever.
C)   It nominated John Bell for president.
D)   It focused on gaining votes in the South.

Question 16

Why did the Democrats remain a national organization after 1854?

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A)   They made inroads into the North.
B)   Gains in the South offset losses in the North.
C)   They abandoned popular sovereignty in favor of a free-soil platform.
D)   They welcomed former Whigs into their ranks.

Question 17

Early in the struggle to win Kansas, proslavery supporters

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A)   invaded Kansas to control the election through fraud and intimidation.
B)   initiated the first orderly implementation of popular sovereignty.
C)   saw that the cause was lost and retreated from the contest.
D)   got no support from the presidential administration of Millard Fillmore.

Question 18

Although morally opposed to slavery, Abraham Lincoln held the same opinion of African Americans as most white Americans did in the 1850s. Discuss how Lincoln was able to separate his personal feelings about African Americans from his convictions about slavery. How did he believe these views could keep the Union from breaking apart?

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Question 19

Who, according to Lincoln, had the responsibility to stop the spread of slavery?

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A)   Southern planters
B)   The Democratic party
C)   Congress
D)   State governments

Question 20

What did the federal government do to the Plains Indians who lived in what became Nebraska?

Accepted Answer

A)   It concentrated Indians on reservations in Nebraska and Kansas.
B)   It deported the Indians to Canada.
C)   It relocated the Indians in Iowa.
D)   It pushed them farther west.

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