Question 1

What was the final blow to the Whig party?

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A)   Ostend Manifesto
B)   Kansas-Nebraska Act
C)   Compromise of 1850
D)   Lecompton Constitution
E)   Fugitive Slave ActF) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 2

Analyze the provisions of the Compromise of 1850. What were the main provisions? Who benefited and who suffered from the compromise? In what sense did it fail to resolve the issue, and in what ways did it actually intensify the argument during the next decade?

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Question 3

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks

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Question 4

Who won the 1856 presidential election?

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A)   Millard Fillmore
B)   James Buchanan
C)   Franklin Pierce
D)   Winfield Scott
E)   Zachary TaylorF) B) and C)
G) B) and E)

Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Doctrine of free soil, Popular Sovereignty

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Question 6

Which territory had two competing governments in the 1850s?

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A)   Texas
B)   Nebraska
C)   Kansas
D)   Michigan
E)   CaliforniaF) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 7

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 8

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Fugitive Slave Act

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Question 9

Which statement concerning the presidential election of 1852 is true?

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A)   The Whig party lost much support in the South and began to break up.
B)   Franklin Pierce won a close victory.
C)   Whig candidate Winfield Scott won by vigorously endorsing the Compromise of 1850.
D)   The Republican party made its first major electoral gains.
E)   Franklin Pierce refused to run for reelection.F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 10

Many northern states passed personal-liberty laws in order to

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A)   minimize the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law.
B)   weaken the position of free blacks in their states.
C)   weaken the abolitionist movement by offering some personal liberties to blacks but not true equality.
D)   protect the rights of white men against the attacks of abolitionists and women.
E)   make sure that the Bill of Rights was respected.F) None of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 11

Which statement is an element of the compromise proposed by John Crittenden?

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A)   There should be a constitutional amendment to prohibit federal interference with southern slavery.
B)   There should be another constitutional amendment declaring the Kansas-Nebraska Act as the guide for future slavery extension.
C)   The Missouri Compromise should be repealed.
D)   Southerners would have to accept the personal economic loss if one of their slaves ran away.
E)   The principle of popular sovereignty should be applied to states' personal-liberty laws.F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

Question 12

The Gadsden Purchase was

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A)   the symbolic first land sale in the new Kansas Territory.
B)   James Gadsden's purchase of supplies for an unofficial military expedition to Honduras.
C)   a small strip of land in southern Arizona and New Mexico purchased from Mexico for a railroad line.
D)   a plan to purchase Cuba from Spain for a maximum price of $25 million.
E)   the first slave whose freedom was purchased with money raised by John Brown.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 13

What was the significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ?

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A)   It contradicted prevailing stereotypes about blacks.
B)   It challenged the common notion that slavery tore apart the black family.
C)   It pushed many waverers to an aggressive antislavery stance.
D)   It strengthened the southern defense of slavery by reinforcing stereotypes of blacks as docile and inferior.
E)   It sold relatively few copies and was soon out of print.F) B) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 14

Why did "Bleeding Kansas" occur?

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A)   Proslavery forces stole the election for the state legislature.
B)   Antislavery forces took up "Beecher's Bibles."
C)   John Brown led a brutal murder of five proslavery men.
D)   The nation's precarious sectional balance was in danger.
E)   All of these choicesF) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 15

What were the major issues discussed in the Lincoln-Douglas debates? On what issues did the two candidates agree, and on what issues did they disagree? In what sense did the debates summarize the controversy to date, and in what sense did they point to the future of the controversy?

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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:  Texas

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Question 17

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John Breckinridge, John Bell

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Question 18

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Lincoln-Douglas debates

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Question 19

What was the reaction of many northerners to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act?

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A)   They joined with southerners to prevent runaway slaves from escaping to Canada.
B)   Although some Northerners saw the act as the price of saving the Union, many more saw it as a vile monument of infamy and therefore took up the abolition cause.
C)   They began campaigns to repeal the old "personal-liberty laws" that had been passed under the Articles of Confederation.
D)   In Boston and other northern cities, mobs surrounded houses where runaway slaves were hiding, and forced the owners to surrender the fugitives.
E)   They built special jails to accommodate slaves captured on northern soil.F) None of the above
G) A) and D)

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. "higher law"

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