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- 1. Multiple Choice
As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, many northerners
found the book's portrayal of slavery too extreme.
vowed to halt British and French efforts to help the Confederacy.
rejected Hinton Helper's picture of the South and slavery.
would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin
intended to show the cruelty of slavery.
was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
comprised the recollections of a long-time personal witness to the evils of slavery.
portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Uncle Tom's Cabin may be described as
a firsthand account of slavery.
a success only in the U.S.
a romanticized account of slavery.
a powerful political force.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Harriet Beecher Stowe was described by President Abraham Lincoln as
a troublemaker.
a radical abolitionists.
the woman who wrote the book that started the Civil War.
the force behind the Underground Railroad.
- 5. Multiple Choice
The roots of Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery sentiments lay in the
evangelical religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening.
rationalist theories of the Enlightenment.
economic theories of Robert Owen and Karl Marx.
evangelical ideas of Jonathan Edwards and the First Great Awakening.
- 6. Multiple Choice
When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, their governments
realized that intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South would not be popular.
concluded that they must end slavery in their own territory.
decided to give aid to the slaveholding South.
banned the book.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Hinton R. Helper's book, The Impending Crisis of the South, argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were
African Americans.
southern planters.
western farmers.
nonslaveholding southern whites.
- 8. Multiple Choice
In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as
territory governed by the Missouri Compromise.
slave territory worth contesting against antislavery northerners to determine the territory's ultimate political status.
geographically unsuitable for slavery.
a test for slavery in wheat-growing areas.
- 9. Multiple Choice
In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that
slavery was inconsistent with the constitution and must be abolished.
protection of slavery was guaranteed in all the territories of the U.S.
slavery would be constitutional only in those areas that were already slave territories.
slavery was unconstitutional, but the slave trade was unconstitutional.
- 10. Multiple Choice
In "Bleeding Kansas" in the mid-1850s, _____ was/were identified with the proslavery element, and _____ was/were associated with the antislavery free-soilers.
Beecher's Bibles; border ruffians
John Brown; Preston Brooks
the Pottawatomie massacre; the sack of Lawrence
the Lecompton Constitution; the New England Immigrant Aid Society
- 11. Multiple Choice
In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with
the arrival of John Brown.
the influx of a large number of slaves.
the passage of the Lecompton Constitution.
a deadly armed attack and partial burning of the free-soil town of Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders.
- 12. Multiple Choice
President James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's Lecompton Constitution
hopelessly divided the Democratic party.
admitted Kansas to the Union as a free state.
reaffirmed the Democratic party as a national party.
turned the focus of controversy to Nebraska.
- 13. Multiple Choice
The Lecompton Constitution was written so that Kansas
could enter the Union as either a slave state or a free state.
would hold a popular referendum on slavery after admission to the Union.
would allow slavery but prohibit the slave trade.
would continue to permit slavery for owners of slaves who held slaves in Kansas at the time of the ratification vote, even if the voters of Kansas enacted the Lecompton Constitution "without slavery."
- 14. Multiple Choice
The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas
be free of all slavery.
hold a popular referendum on slavery.
allow slavery but prohibit slave auctions.
None of these choices are correct.
- 15. Multiple Choice
The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of _____ in the territories.
abolitionism
free soil
popular sovereignty
slavery
- 16. Multiple Choice
The clash and political fallout between Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in 1856 revealed that
the important of honor to northerners.
despite divisions over slavery, the House of Representatives would unite to expel a member for bad conduct.
passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South.
there were stark divisions between the House and the Senate over slavery in the Democratic party.
- 17. Multiple Choice
James Buchanan won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1856 because he
campaigned against the policy of popular sovereignty.
had gained fame as a western explorer and soldier.
controlled the key swing state of Pennsylvania.
could distance himself and the Democrats from the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
- 18. Multiple Choice
Match each figure with his role in the 1856 presidential campaign.
A. John C. Frémont
B. Millard Fillmore
C. Stephen A. Douglas
D. James Buchanan
- Democratic nominee for president
- Republican nominee for president
- Know-Nothing (American Party) nominee for president
- Too tainted by Kansas-Nebraska Act to obtain Democratic nomination
A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4
A-4, B-1, C-2, D-3
A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1
A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2
- 19. Multiple Choice
The central plank(s) of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was/were
popular sovereignty.
expansionism.
proslavery.
antiforeignism and anti-Catholicism.
- 20. Multiple Choice
In the presidential election of 1856, the Republicans
although not victorious, revealed impressive popular appeal in the Northeast and parts of the West for the first presidential election.
lost behind their most popular leader, Senator William Seward.
made their debut as the most successful third party in American history.
proved unable to present a clear platform on slavery expansion.
- 21. Multiple Choice
The Republicans lost the 1856 election in part because of
southern threats that a Republican victory would tantamount be a declaration of war.
lingering support for slavery in the North.
northern bullyism.
the division between Democrats and Know-Nothings.
- 22. Multiple Choice
The MOST significant result of the election of 1856 was that it
showed that the Democrats still remained the majority party in the country.
demonstrated the importance of charismatic leadership in the presidency.
foreshadowed an ominous sectional clash over slavery in the election of 1860.
signaled the demise of the Know-Nothing (American) Party.
- 23. Multiple Choice
As late as 1856, many northerners were still willing to vote Democratic instead of Republican because
of innate liberalism.
the Democrats consistently presented superior presidential and congressional candidates to the other parties.
many Democrats involved in interstate commerce did not want to lose their profitable business connections with the South.
the Democrats were the only national party.
- 24. Multiple Choice
In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the U.S. Supreme Court
freed Dred Scott but upheld the Missouri Compromise.
denied Scott's appeal but held that slaves could not be taken into free territories.
essentially upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty.
issued a broad judicial decision ruling that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories.
- 25. Multiple Choice
In the Dred Scott case, the U.S. Supreme Court made all of the following determinations except
it ruled that Dred Scott was a slave, not a citizen, and therefore could not sue in federal court.
it said that because slaves were private property, they could be taken into free or slave territories.
it decided that slaves brought into territories north of the 36°30' line were considered free.
it stated that Scott should be returned to slavery.
- 26. Multiple Choice
The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by
abolitionists.
Republicans.
popular sovereignty proponents.
proslavery southerners.
- 27. Multiple Choice
Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Dred Scott decision, (B) Lincoln-Douglas debates, (C) Kansas-Nebraska Act, and (D) Harpers Ferry raid.
A, C, B, D
B, D, C, A
D, B, A, C
C, A, B, D
- 28. Multiple Choice
For a majority of northerners, the MOST outrageous part of the several objectionable parts of the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney's majority opinion (decision) in the Dred Scott case was that the Court ruled that
Scott did not automatically become free when his owner took him through free states and territories.
Congress never had the constitutional power to prohibit slavery in any territory.
black slaves did not have the constitutional power to sue in federal courts to win their freedom.
the Bill of Rights did not apply even to free African Americans.
- 29. Multiple Choice
As a result of the panic of 1857, the South
became more economically dependent on the North.
became hostile to Wall Street and the stock market.
overconfidently believed that it was now economically superior to the North.
saw the need to develop manufacturing.
- 30. Multiple Choice
In the North, the panic of 1857 created calls for
free homesteads and higher protective tariffs.
price supports for farmers.
federal regulation of land and stock speculation.
All of these choices are correct.
- 31. Multiple Choice
The panic of 1857
was caused by overproduction of southern cotton.
hit hardest among grain growers of the Northwest.
stimulated northern demands for lower tariff rates.
demonstrated the economic dominance of the North.
- 32. Multiple Choice
In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to
call upon the slaves to rise and establish a black free state.
arouse the South to secede from the Union.
stir West Virginia to break away from Virginia as a free state.
demonstrate that blacks could fight for their freedom.
- 33. Multiple Choice
After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that
the raid was an isolated incident.
the U.S. army could not protect slavery.
Brown should be put in an insane asylum.
the North was dominated by "Brown-loving" Republicans.
- 34. Multiple Choice
John Brown's execution produced all of the following results except
Harriet Tubman praised Brown's support of freedom for slaves.
abolitionists and free-soilers were outraged.
Southerners wondered how they could stay in the Union.
Brown's bloody past prior to the Harper's Ferry raid was exposed and he was discredited.
- 35. Multiple Choice
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 Republican party presidential nomination in part because he
had been a strong supporter of William Seward.
had made fewer enemies than front-runner William Seward.
had more political experience than his opponents.
None of these choices are correct.
- 36. Multiple Choice
Match each presidential candidate in the 1860 election below with his party's position on the slavery question.
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Stephen Douglas
C. John Breckenridge
D. John Bell
- extend slavery into the territories
- ban slavery from the territories
- preserve the Union by compromise
- enforce popular sovereignty
A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4
A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3
A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
- 37. Multiple Choice
In the election of 1860, the Constitutional Union party was formed
to show support for the Constitution and the decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court.
as a middle-of-the-road party seeking to prevent the break up of the Union.
to help catapult the country into a Civil War.
as a proslavery northern party.
- 38. Multiple Choice
When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina
waited to see how other southern states would act.
were very upset because they would have to secede from the Union.
vowed to give their loyalty to Stephen Douglas.
rejoiced because Lincoln's election as president provided secessionist South Carolinians with the political pretext to vote in the state legislature in favor of secession.
- 39. Multiple Choice
The government of the Confederate States of America was first organized in
Atlanta, Georgia in February 1860.
Montgomery, Alabama in February 1861.
Richmond, Virginia in February 1861.
Knoxville, Tennessee in February 1860.
- 40. Multiple Choice
"Lame-duck" President James Buchanan asserted following the presidential election of 1860 that
southern states had a legal right to secede from the Union.
the election of 1860 was a fraud.
southern states had no choice but to secede from the Union.
southern states could not legally secede under the Constitution, but was unable to find the presidential authority under the Constitution to use American armed forces to prevent the seven southern states that had voted for secession from doing so.
- 41. Multiple Choice
President James Buchanan declined to use force to keep the seven southern secessionist states in the Union for all of the following reasons except
northern public opinion would not support it.
the army was needed to control Indians in the West.
he believed that the Constitution required Congressional approval of the use of force.
a slim chance of reconciliation remained.
- 42. Multiple Choice
Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because
it permitted slavery in the Utah territory.
its adoption might provoke Kentucky to leave the Union.
he felt bound by President Buchanan's earlier rejection of it.
he had been elected on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery.
- 43. Multiple Choice
Secessionists supported leaving the Union for all of the following reasons except
they were dismayed by the success of the Republican party.
the political balanced seemed to be tipping against them.
they were tired of abolitionist attacks.
they believed that Republicans had been infiltrating their political ranks.
- 44. Multiple Choice
In declaring their independence, the Confederate States asserted that they were following the historical example of the
nullification crisis in South Carolina.
principles of self-determination of the Declaration of Independence.
Texas declaration of independence from Mexico.
French Revolution.
- 45. Multiple Choice
The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the South was
repaid immediately after the Civil War.
repudiated by the South.
not repaid until the twentieth century.
converted into long-term Confederate bonds.
- 46. Multiple Choice
All of the following are true statements about southerners in the secession movement except
they regarded their region as a subnation with a distinct culture from the North.
the southern secessionists were inspired by worldwide impulses of nationalism.
they were dismayed by the political triumph of the new sectional Republican party, which seemed to threaten their "property" rights as a slaveholding minority.
a majority of southern secessionists believed the South had an absolute right to resume importation of slaves from Africa.
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