Deck 13: The Coming of the Civil War

Question 1

As a result of the new fugitive slave law from the Compromise of 1850,

A) many Northerners who were not abolitionists were outraged at the sight of people being forced to return to slavery.
B) abolitionists no longer aided runaway slaves.
C) state governments in Massachusetts and Wisconsin actively helped capture runaway slaves.
D) the Underground Railroad was destroyed.

Answer 1

many Northerners who were not abolitionists were outraged at the sight of people being forced to return to slavery.

Question 2

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel that brought home the evils of slavery to many in the North was

A) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
B) The Impending Crisis.
C) Twelve Years a Slave.
D) Below the Mason-Dixon Line.

Answer 2

Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Question 3

Harriet Beecher Stowe was

A) well known in literary circles prior to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
B) a strident abolitionist.
C) a fugitive slave who wrote about the horrors of the Fugitive Slave Act.
D) not a professional writer but had been roused by the Fugitive Slave Act.

Answer 3

not a professional writer but had been roused by the Fugitive Slave Act.

Question 4

The "Young America" movement argued that

A) revolutions in other countries were dangerous.
B) democracy was unique to America and could not be exported.
C) England was the cause of all American problems.
D) democracy would triumph everywhere.

Question 5

In the spirit of the "Young America" movement, William Walker attempted repeatedly to gain control of

A) El Salvador.
B) Cuba.
C) Nicaragua.
D) Mexico.

Question 6

The United States attempted to establish some control over a future canal across the isthmus of Central America by negotiating with

A) France.
B) Spain.
C) Great Britain.
D) Germany.

Question 7

The Ostend Manifesto was an American statement that America should buy or seize

A) Panama.
B) Hawaii.
C) Mexico.
D) Cuba.

Question 8

The expansionist mood of "Young America" best explains

A) the numerous utopian communities such as the Shakers.
B) Lincoln's election as president.
C) the flood of new immigrants.
D) Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan.

Question 9

The most prominent spokesman of the "Young America" movement was

A) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
B) Horace Greeley.
C) Stephen A. Douglas.
D) Henry Clay.

Question 10

Who was the "the Henry Clay of his generation," the man based his politics on expansion and popular sovereignty?

A) Stephen A. Douglas
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Franklin Pierce
D) James Buchanan

Question 11

Stephen A. Douglas believed that Congress should be concerned primarily about

A) maintaining a balanced federal budget.
B) prohibiting slavery in the territories.
C) establishing a plan for gradual, compensated emancipation of slaves.
D) rapidly exploiting the continent.

Question 12

During the election of 1852, both major political parties

A) rejected the Ostend Manifesto.
B) attacked the Compromise of 1850.
C) supported the Compromise of 1850.
D) avoided taking a stand on the Compromise of 1850.

Question 13

Stephen Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 partly because of his

A) plans for a transcontinental railroad.
B) desire to embarrass President Pierce.
C) dramatic religious conversion.
D) desire to placate the South.

Question 14

Stephen Douglas staunchly believed that the slavery question in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska should be resolved by

A) protecting slavery.
B) the Supreme Court.
C) banning slavery.
D) popular sovereignty.

Question 15

The "greatest single step" toward the American Civil War was the

A) Fugitive Slave Act.
B) Missouri Compromise.
C) Kansas-Nebraska Act.
D) Compromise of 1850.

Question 16

Northern feelings seemed to reach a boiling point on the Fugitive Slave Law with the arrest and return of

A) William and Ellen Craft.
B) Frederick Jenkins.
C) Euphemia Williams.
D) Anthony Burns.

Question 17

The ________ party was most closely associated with Americanism, or nativism.

A) Republican
B) Free-Soil
C) Know-Nothing
D) Whig

Question 18

The average settler in Kansas

A) was not strongly interested in the slavery question.
B) owned large numbers of slaves.
C) believed slavery should be abolished.
D) moved to Kansas specifically because of the controversy over slavery.

Question 19

As seen in the map "Bleeding Kansas," Kansas Territory was bordered on the east by proslavery

A) Illinois.
B) Missouri.
C) Nebraska.
D) Arkansas.

Question 20

A major cause of the disorder in Kansas was the

A) continued resistance of Native Americans to white exploitation and expansion.
B) immigration of numerous free blacks.
C) meddling by Congress in local affairs.
D) interference from outsiders from both the North and the South on the slavery issue.

Question 21

In May 1856, ________ slaughtered five unarmed, proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in "bleeding Kansas."

A) John Brown
B) Charles Sumner
C) William Lloyd Garrison
D) Preston Brooks

Question 22

The main responsibility for "bleeding Kansas" rests upon

A) Missouri border ruffians who mercilessly attacked the free state partisans.
B) the Pierce administration, which did not ensure honest elections because that might alienate the South.
C) abolitionist fanatics such as John Brown who were unwilling to compromise their principles and were willing to resort to violence.
D) the Buchanan administration, which refused to ensure honest elections because that might alienate the South.

Question 23

Senator ________ was beaten unconscious by a member of the House of Representatives after he gave his "The Crime Against Kansas" speech.

A) Charles Sumner
B) Preston Brooks
C) Stephen Douglas
D) William Seward

Question 24

James Buchanan received the Democratic presidential nomination in 1856 mainly because he

A) took a strong stand for the extension of slavery.
B) had a moderate stand on slavery, even though he was a Southerner.
C) was overseas during the bitter debate over Kansas.
D) had almost no political experience and therefore no political baggage.

Question 25

"An Act of Congress which deprives a person…of his liberty or property merely because he came himself or brought his property into a particular Territory…could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law." This statement is from the

A) Compromise of 1850.
B) Ableman v. Booth decision.
C) Kansas-Nebraska Act.
D) Dred Scott decision.

Question 26

The Supreme Court ruled the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional in the ________ decision.

A) Dred Scott
B) John Emerson
C) Anthony Burns
D) Frederick Douglass

Question 27

A major implication of the Dred Scott decision was that

A) slavery was a nationwide institution, excluded only where states specifically abolished it.
B) only a territorial legislature could follow the principle of popular sovereignty.
C) only Congress could exclude slavery from a territory.
D) slavery was a state institution, legal only where states specifically adopted it.

Question 28

The Lecompton constitution caused a complete break between President Buchanan and his former political ally,

A) Abraham Lincoln.
B) Stephen Douglas.
C) Jefferson Davis.
D) Charles Sumner.

Question 29

Buchanan's reaction to the Lecompton constitution was to

A) support it because it provided for the gradual emancipation of slaves in Kansas.
B) support it as a perfect example of popular sovereignty.
C) refuse to submit it to Congress because it permitted slavery.
D) support it despite the fraud perpetrated by the proslavery faction.

Question 30

Prior to becoming president, Lincoln's position on slavery displayed his

A) unwillingness to compromise.
B) compassion toward the slave owner but condemnation of slavery.
C) hatred for slavery and slave owners.
D) compassion towards slaves and condemnation of slave owners.

Question 31

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas set out to make Lincoln look like a(n)

A) abolitionist.
B) Free Soiler.
C) eastern elitist.
D) opportunist.

Question 32

During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln

A) supported both political equality for blacks and the Dred Scott decision.
B) portrayed Douglas as an opponent of the Dred Scott decision.
C) opposed both slavery and social and political equality for blacks.
D) supported repealing the Fugitive Slave Act.

Question 33

During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas argued that territories could circumvent the Dred Scott decision by not enacting the laws necessary for slavery. This was called the

A) Ostend Manifesto.
B) Peoria Doctrine.
C) Freeport Doctrine.
D) Dred Scott Proviso.

Question 34

"It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question…the people have the lawful means to introduce or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist…unless it is supported by local police regulations." This statement is from

A) James Buchanan's "Ostend Manifesto."
B) Charles Sumner's "The Crime Against Kansas."
C) Stephen Douglas's "Freeport Doctrine."
D) Roger B. Taney's reasoning in Dred Scott v. Sanford.

Question 35

John Brown's major goal in attacking Harpers Ferry was to

A) keep slavery out of Kansas.
B) seize the federal arsenal and arm the slaves.
C) cut communications between Washington and the South.
D) punish the citizens for their support of slave catchers.

Question 36

Before John Brown was executed by Virginia for treason, conspiracy, and murder,

A) he behaved like a madman.
B) the numerous other plots of his followers were uncovered.
C) he behaved with such enormous dignity that many Northerners saw him as a martyr.
D) his dramatic confessions implicated numerous abolitionists in his attack on Harpers Ferry.

Question 37

"If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of... millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I say, let it be done." This statement was made by whom?

A) Hinton Rowan Helper
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) John Brown
D) Stephen A. Douglas

Question 38

In 1860, the Democratic party

A) held two conventions, but united and nominated Stephen Douglas for president.
B) collapsed completely and was unable to nominate any presidential candidate.
C) held two conventions and split into a northern and a southern faction.
D) nominated and elected Abraham Lincoln as president.

Question 39

John Bell and the Constitutional Union party had their greatest support in the 1860 election in the

A) western states of Oregon and California.
B) southern states of Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama.
C) northeastern states of Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire.
D) border states of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.

Question 40

In the election of 1860, the ________ party nominated John Bell for president and ignored the conflicts rending the nation.

A) Democratic (Southern)
B) Constitutional Union
C) Democratic (Northern)
D) Republican

Question 41

Which of the following happened in the election of 1860?

A) Lincoln campaigned actively, stressing his opposition to slavery in the territories.
B) Southern Democrats swallowed their personal dislike of Douglas and supported him as the last chance to save the Union.
C) John Bell demanded that the future extension of slavery be guaranteed.
D) Douglas realized he would lose, rose above ambition, and appealed to voters, both North and South, to stand by the Union.

Question 42

Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 with a

A) thin majority of the popular vote.
B) plurality of the popular vote.
C) plurality of the Electoral College.
D) overwhelming majority of the popular vote.

Question 43

Among the most basic justifications for the secession of the South were the

A) traditional states' rights arguments.
B) refusals of Lincoln and the Republicans to support constitutional guarantees to protect slavery where it already existed.
C) fears of the overpowering Northern economy.
D) promises of aid from England and France.

Question 44

"We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions, or we must secede." The source of this quote is

A) the Mississippi convention.
B) the Crittenden Compromise.
C) Virginia's "Declaration of Causes of Secession."
D) John C. Calhoun's A Disquisition on Government.

Question 45

When the states of the lower South seceded,

A) Buchanan declared secession illegal and boldly rallied the Unionists in the South to prevent it.
B) Lincoln thought secession a bluff and announced no plans to deal with it before assuming office.
C) Congress passed, and Buchanan signed, the Crittenden Compromise, guaranteeing the future security of slavery.
D) Lincoln indicated his willingness to compromise on extending slavery in the territories.

Question 46

After secession began in 1860, the proposed constitutional amendment which would have guaranteed the future existence of slavery south of the old Missouri Compromise line was the

A) Compromise of 1860.
B) Crittenden Compromise.
C) Douglas Amendment.
D) Lincoln-Buchanan Compromise.

Question 47

Matthew C. Perry led the American expedition that established commercial concessions with Japan.

Question 48

Franklin Pierce's cabinet was dominated by radical proslavery politicians.

Question 49

Before the Civil War, the Republican party stood for keeping slavery out of the territories but also for allowing it to remain where it already existed.

Question 50

Uncertainty and confusion over property rights and boundaries exacerbated the problems of establishing an orderly government in the Kansas Territory.

Question 51

Northerners viewed the Brooks-Sumner affair as illustrative of the brutalizing effect of abolitionism on the North.

Question 52

The Lecompton constitution was drafted by an antislavery convention in Kansas and was ultimately supported by the Kansas voters.

Question 53

Before 1858, Lincoln did not have a particularly distinguished public career.

Question 54

In his "Freeport Doctrine" during the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Stephen Douglas called for the gradual emancipation of all slaves.

Question 55

By the time of the election of 1860, Stephen Douglas was probably the last hope of avoiding a rupture between the North and South.

Question 56

After secession began in 1860, most Southerners feared that the North would forcibly resist secession.

Question 57

Explain how the Fugitive Slave Law and Uncle Tom's Cabin both increased sectional tensions in the 1850s.

Question 58

Explain how the concept of popular sovereignty caused the tragedy of "bleeding Kansas." Summarize how the turmoil in Kansas affected the rest of the country.

Question 59

Describe the highlights of the campaign and the election of 1860. Explain what happened between the election and the presidential inauguration in March 1861.

Question 60

What is the definition of the following key term:
-Crittenden Compromise :

Question 61

What is the definition of the following key term:
-Kansas-Nebraska Act:

Question 62

What is the definition of the following key term:
-Know-Nothing party :

Question 63

What is the definition of the following key term:
-Lecompton constitution :

Question 64

What is the definition of the following key term:
-Republican party :