Exam 12: The Union in Peril

When President Lincoln met ________ in 1863, he is reported to have said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."

Northerners supported all of the following EXCEPT

Although Lincoln received less than 40 percent of the popular vote in the election of 1860, he carried every free state except New Jersey.

The arrival of Irish and German immigrants spurred an anti-Catholic backlash from the Anglo American Protestant core of the nation.

On April 10, 1861, General ________ of the Confederacy demanded the surrender of Ft. Sumter.

Senator Stephen Douglas argued that the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 should be voted on as a package rather than individually to demonstrate national unity.

The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 was the ________, appeasing southerners but infuriating northerners.

The ________-________ party opposed immigration, particularly of Catholics, and especially the Irish.

The Confederate States of America elected ________ from Mississippi as president.

An effective argument against the Wilmot Proviso was the fact that Congress had never before restricted the extension of slavery into new territories.

The Compromise of 1850 delayed but did not prevent the outbreak of more serious sectional conflicts.

Many northerners responded to John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry with sympathy.

In 1860, southern delegates met in ________, ________ and created the Confederate States of America.

Whites and blacks decreased activity on the Underground Railroad after passage of the Compromise of 1850.

Over 80,000 gold miners arrived in California in 1849, swelling the American population of the state.

Ex-slave ________ gave passionate public lectures in the northern states and Midwest against slavery.

A faction of Democrats in New York bolted the party in 1848 and joined with "conscience" Whigs to form the Free-Soil Party and support ________ for president.

The Free Soilers captured roughly 40 percent of the popular vote in 1848.

Frederick Douglass gave a famous Independence Day speech in 1852 that symbolized the increasing stridency of free blacks against slavery.

Popular sovereignty appealed to some politicians because its ambiguity enabled people to interpret it as they pleased.