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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
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.
- 4. 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.
- 5. 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.
- 6. 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.
- 7. Multiple Choice
The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of _____ in the territories.
abolitionism
free soil
popular sovereignty
slavery
- 8. 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.
- 9. 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.
determined that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that slaves were property with no right to sue.
- 10. 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.
- 11. 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.
- 12. 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.
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