Question 1

Why did the Whig party collapse after the Kansas-Nebraska Act while the Democratic Party survived?

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Question 2

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following:  Nebraska Territory

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Question 3

What were the issues behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act? How did political pressures shape the bill? Why did a seemingly uncontroversial issue ¾ the advance of midwestern settlement ¾ become such a heated sectional issue?

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Question 4

Why did southerners conclude that the North was bent on extinguishing slavery in southern states?

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Question 5

Was Lincoln trying to conciliate the South, or unify the North? Explain.

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Question 6

How did the Fugitive Slave Act lead to the undoing of the Compromise of 1850?

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Question 7

Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following: 
- Missouri

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Question 8

Lincoln's mainly Republican audience included some prominent Democrats. What image of the Republican party was he trying to counter?

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Question 9

Explain why John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry caused a firestorm of fear in the South? How did the North react to the raid? How realistic were the South's fear? Explain.

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Question 10

What factors explain Britain's shift toward antislavery?

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Question 11

Describe the decline of the Whig party, the rise and fall of the Know-Nothings, and the emergence of the Republican party. How did the changes in the American party system influence the coming of the Civil War?

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Question 12

How did this shift affect defenders and opponents of slavery in the United States?

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Question 13

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following:  New Mexico Territory

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Question 14

Examine the 1860 presidential election. Who were the major candidates, and what were their main positions? Why did Abraham Lincoln ultimately win?

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Question 15

What efforts at compromise were made in 1860 and 1861? Why did they fail?

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Question 16

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following:  California

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Question 17

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following:  Utah Territory

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Question 18

Why did the Fugitive Slave Act arouse strong emotions in both the North and the South? How did the act strike at the heart of the southern view of property rights and northern attitudes about the morality of slavery? Why did the act "radicalize" many conservative northerners on the slavery issue?

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Question 19

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following:  Kansas Territory

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Question 20

How did the Republican doctrine of free soil unify northerners against the South?

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Quiz 14: From Compromise to Secession, 1850-1861

Why did the Whig party collapse after the Kansas-Nebraska Act while the Democratic Party survived?

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following: Nebraska Territory

What were the issues behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act? How did political pressures shape the bill? Why did a seemingly uncontroversial issue ¾ the advance of midwestern settlement ¾ become such a heated sectional issue?

Why did southerners conclude that the North was bent on extinguishing slavery in southern states?

Was Lincoln trying to conciliate the South, or unify the North? Explain.

How did the Fugitive Slave Act lead to the undoing of the Compromise of 1850?

Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following: - Missouri

Lincoln's mainly Republican audience included some prominent Democrats. What image of the Republican party was he trying to counter?

Explain why John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry caused a firestorm of fear in the South? How did the North react to the raid? How realistic were the South's fear? Explain.

What factors explain Britain's shift toward antislavery?

Describe the decline of the Whig party, the rise and fall of the Know-Nothings, and the emergence of the Republican party. How did the changes in the American party system influence the coming of the Civil War?

How did this shift affect defenders and opponents of slavery in the United States?

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following: New Mexico Territory

Examine the 1860 presidential election. Who were the major candidates, and what were their main positions? Why did Abraham Lincoln ultimately win?

What efforts at compromise were made in 1860 and 1861? Why did they fail?

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following: California

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following: Utah Territory

Why did the Fugitive Slave Act arouse strong emotions in both the North and the South? How did the act strike at the heart of the southern view of property rights and northern attitudes about the morality of slavery? Why did the act "radicalize" many conservative northerners on the slavery issue?

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States in 1860 that correctly identifies each of the following: Kansas Territory

How did the Republican doctrine of free soil unify northerners against the South?