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What effect did John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry have on the South? |
it indicated that abolitionists would use violence to overthrow slavery |
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During their senatorial campaign debates, Stephen A. Douglas depicted Abraham Lincoln as |
an abolitionist who loved blacks |
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What did the Wilmot Proviso of 1846 propose? |
Slavery would be prohibited throughout the entire area ceded by Mexico |
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Who supported the Wilmot Proviso? |
Anti-slavery northerners |
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Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan proposed the doctrine of popular sovereignty, a measure |
people who settled the territories to decide whether or not they wanted slavery |
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How did the Mexican-American War affect American politics? |
It divided the nation based on the issue of slavery in the territories |
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What did the Whigs do in an attempt to reunite their party during the presidential campaign of 1848? |
Remain silent on the issue of slavery |
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When Zachary Taylor became president in 1849, he enraged Southerners |
by championing a free-soil solution to slavery by urging Congress to admit California and New Mexico to the union as free states |
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What happened when Democrats met to choose a presidential candidate in Charleston, |
The party divided into southern and northern factions |
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Which issue in the debate of 1849-1850 led to the Compromise of 1850? |
The balance of power between the North and the South in Congress |
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Which Senator argued that, when it came to ending slavery, there was "a higher law than |
William Seward |
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Per the Compromise of 1850, which state entered the union as a free state? |
California |
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What was a requirement of the Fugitive Slave Act, part of the Compromise of 1850? |
All citizens were expected to assist officials in apprehending runaway slaves |
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What happened to most fugitive slaves once they were captured after the Fugitive Slave Act was enacted? |
They were peacefully returned to their masters |
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What did the federal government do to the Plains Indians who lived in what became Nebraska? |
The federal government pushed them farther west |
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Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) influence northerners’ attitudes toward slavery? |
The novel put forth a stirring moral indictment of slavery |
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Whigs lose the Election of 1852 because |
they are divided over slavery |
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Why did the Democrats remain a national organization after 1854? |
Gains in the South offset losses in the North |
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In 1853, the United States negotiated the Gadsden Purchase |
support the dream of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad |
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The American Party, or Know-Nothings, appeared in the mid-1850s as |
a reaction to large numbers of Roman Catholics coming to the United States |
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In 1854, Stephen A. Douglas sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act and included a section repealing the Missouri Compromise because |
he needed southern support to pass his legislation, the price of which was opening up the Nebraska territory to the possibility of slavery |
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Northern women supported the Republican Party by |
marching in Republican parades |
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The presidential election of 1856 revealed the |
strength of the new Republican Party |
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What was the result of Preston Brooks’s caning of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner in 1856? |
It further inflamed sectional passions over the institution of slavery |
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What did the Supreme Court rule in its 1857 Dred Scott decision? |
Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States |
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What did Abraham Lincoln personally believe about slavery? |
Slavery was morally wrong |
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The common thread that wove together northern men into the Republican Party in 1854 was |
opposition to the extension of slavery into any territory of the United States |
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How did Stephen A. Douglas respond in 1857 when proslavery forces in Lecompton, Kansas, drafted a constitution that many felt was fraudulent? |
Douglas came out against the proslavery constitution |
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What did Douglas argue in what became known as the Freeport Doctrine? |
Settlers could ban slavery by not passing the laws necessary to protect slave property |
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What led to the demise of the Know-Nothing party in the mid-1850s? |
Nathaniel Banks left the party with 2/3 of its members |
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What happened to John Brown after his raid on Harper’s Ferry? |
He was executed |
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Whom did the Democratic party nominate in the presidential election of 1856? |
James Buchanan |
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How did the increasingly confident Republican Party prepare for the election of 1860? |
It expanded its platform to address other issues |
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What made Abraham Lincoln an attractive candidate for the Republican nomination? |
He represented the crucial state of Illinois |
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Early in the struggle to win Kansas, proslavery supporters |
from out of state invaded Kansas, to control the election through fraud and intimidation |
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Southerners felt so much hostility toward the Republican Party during the presidential election of 1860 that |
ten states refused to allow Lincoln’s name to appear on the ballot |
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When the first territorial legislature in Kansas met, |
enacted tough proslavery laws and prompted the organization of a rival government |
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Which Southerner argued that "I consider slavery much more secure in the Union than out of it?" |
Alexander Stephens |
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Which was the first state to secede from the union after Lincoln’s election? |
South Carolina |
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How did James Buchanan respond as the secession crisis loomed over the final weeks of his presidential administration? |
Buchanan remained in Washington and did nothing |
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The Dred Scott decision increased sectional tension by |
giving credence to the belief in the North that a Slave Power conspiracy existed and was laboring to subvert northern liberties |
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In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln was |
reassuring and conciliatory toward the South on the issue of slavery but firm and inflexible concerning the perpetuity of the Union |
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In the mid-1850s, Abraham Lincoln’s search for a political home was based on his |
opposition to the extension of slavery in the United States |
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Why did the slave states of the upper south initially reject secession? |
The upper south did not have as great a stake in slavery as the states in the lower south |
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Who became the president of the new Confederate States of America? |
Jefferson Davis |
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Who, according to Lincoln, had the responsibility of stopping the spread of slavery? |
The Southern lady |
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In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president because he had |
strong support in the free states despite winning only 39 percent of the national popular vote |
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As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, |
Stephen A. Douglas won a senate seat, but Abraham Lincoln became nationally known |
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