Deck 13: The Sectional Crisis

Question 1

Which of the following contained a provision requiring all states to return fugitive slaves?

A) the Constitution
B) the Declaration of Independence
C) the Kansas-Nebraska Act
D) the Missouri Compromise

Answer 1

the Constitution

Question 2

In contrast to the Erie Canal,the Cumberland Road was built with financing from __________.

A) international loans
B) private investors
C) state governments
D) the federal government

Answer 2

the federal government

Question 3

According to the introductory video in section 13.4,John Brown and his followers were different from other abolitionists because of their __________.

A) use of violence
B) use of the law
C) focus on changing the Constitution
D) tolerance of existing slavery

Answer 3

use of violence

Question 4

Which state would have been the most likely to oppose the admission of California into the Union?

A) Massachusetts
B) New York
C) South Carolina
D) Pennsylvania

Question 5

"Bleeding Kansas" refers to the violent conflict between supporters and opponents of __________.

A) slavery
B) secession
C) expansion
D) industrialization

Question 6

According to the introductory video in section 13.3,where was Dred Scott living when he sued his master for freedom?

A) Virginia
B) Missouri
C) Wisconsin
D) Kansas

Question 7

What did John Brown oppose?

A) expansion
B) conscription
C) slavery
D) taxation

Question 8

According to the video in the introduction,what triggered a series of events that would culminate in the Civil War?

A) the decline of the abolitionist movement
B) the discovery of gold in California
C) the acquisition of Florida from Spain
D) the revocation of the return clause in the Constitution

Question 9

Stephen Douglas would have agreed with the Whig Party on which of the following?

A) restrictions on the construction of transportation networks
B) ban on the use of federal funds for railroad construction
C) federal funding for internal improvements
D) state responsibility for financing highways

Question 10

The principle of popular sovereignty informed which of the following?

A) Missouri Compromise
B) Compromise of 1850
C) Dred Scott case
D) Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 11

Who did John Brown believe gave him the authority to do what he did?

A) God
B) Satan
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 12

According to the introductory video in section 13.1,who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

A) Mary Todd
B) Nat Turner
C) John Brown
D) Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 13

In what way were Dred Scott v.Sandford and the Fugitive Slave Act similar?

A) Both represented victories for abolitionists.
B) Both worked to the advantage of slaveholders.
C) Both weakened the institution of slavery.
D) Both made it easier for slaves to gain freedom.

Question 14

The actions of which of the following inspired John Brown to launch a slave insurrection?

A) Nat Turner
B) Robert E. Lee
C) J. E. B. Stuart
D) Mary Todd

Question 15

According to the introductory video in section 13.2,what put Stephen Douglas at a disadvantage in his courtship of Mary Todd?

A) his affiliation with the Whig Party
B) his affiliation with the Democratic Party
C) his loss of the senate seat to Abraham Lincoln
D) his frequent bouts of depression

Question 16

Which of the following would have required that Kansas and Nebraska be admitted into the Union as free states?

A) Missouri Compromise
B) Compromise of 1850
C) Dred Scott case
D) Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 17

What did Northerners not like about the Compromise of 1850?

A) the Fugitive Slave Act
B) the Kansas-Nebraska Act
C) the purchase of Alaska
D) the admission of California

Question 18

In Dred Scott v.Sandford,what did the Supreme Court say infringed on the property rights of slaveholders?

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

Question 19

To many Southerners,John Brown was a __________.

A) hero
B) martyr
C) murderer
D) swindler

Question 20

In what way were Dred Scott v.Sandford and Marbury v.Madison similar?

A) Both were issued by the Taney Court.
B) Both were issued by the Marshall Court.
C) Both declared that a congressional act was unconstitutional.
D) Both affirmed the constitutionality of a congressional act.

Question 21

Which of the following statements best reflects the Southern view of the political implications of the balance between free and slaves states shown in the map?

A) "It is desirable for the peace and harmony of the Union that all existing controversies between the states, arising out of the institution of slavery, be settled amicably. . . ."
B) ". . . the manufacturing progress of the North is such, that in a few years she may absorb the whole of the southern staple. . . ."
C) "It is an inevitable law of political economy, that slavery must cease where trade is free and the population of freemen becomes more dense."
D) "A single section, governed by the will of a numerical majority, now controls the government and its entire powers."

Question 22

Which territory applied for statehood in 1849?

A) Kansas
B) Nebraska
C) California
D) Oregon

Question 23

Which state flouted the Fugitive State Law?

A) Massachusetts
B) South Carolina
C) Virginia
D) Missouri

Question 24

Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas both believed that __________ was the best way to resolve the issues between the North and the South on the issue of slavery.

A) civil war
B) litigation
C) secession
D) compromise

Question 25

Which of the following weakened the Fugitive Slave Act?

A) Compromise of 1850
B) Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act of 1855
C) Kansas-Nebraska Act
D) Dred Scott v. Sandford

Question 26

According to the introductory video in section 13.5,who did Abraham Lincoln impress when he delivered a speech at Cooper Union in New York in 1860?

A) Constitutional Unionists
B) Republicans
C) Southern Democrats
D) Northern Democrats

Question 27

Which of the following did Abraham Lincoln criticize during his debates with Stephen Douglas?

A) Marbury v. Madison
B) Dred Scott v. Sandford
C) Missouri Compromise
D) statehood of California

Question 28

How did events in the middle of the nineteenth century push the South toward secession?

Question 29

Which of the following was a candidate being considered for the Republican presidential nomination in 1860?

A) Stephen Douglas
B) Robert E. Lee
C) William Seward
D) Roger Taney

Question 30

Which of the following would be punished under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

A) hiding a fugitive slave from the authorities
B) reporting a fugitive slave to the authorities
C) accusing a black person of being a runaway slave
D) arresting a black person for being a runaway slave

Question 31

According to the Arguing History video in section 13.6,the division of American society on the issue of slavery along __________ lines made secession easier to imagine.

A) geographical
B) racial
C) cultural
D) party

Question 32

Who used the following quote to describe the situation in the United States in the late 1850s?: "A house divided against itself can not stand."

A) Stephen Douglas
B) Henry Clay
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) John Calhoun

Question 33

How was the Missouri Compromise of 1820 weakened in the middle of the nineteenth century?

Question 34

Based on the information in the map,which presidential candidate failed to gain any electoral votes from any states where slavery was allowed?

A) Lincoln
B) Breckinridge
C) Bell
D) Douglas

Question 35

Who was Abraham Lincoln's opponent in the Senate race in 1858?

A) William Seward
B) Stephen Douglas
C) John Brown
D) John Calhoun

Question 36

According to the How Do We Know? video in section 13.6,what did John Brown cite to defend his actions?

A) Marbury vs. Madison
B) Dred Scott v. Sandford
C) the Fugitive Slave Act
D) the Bible

Question 37

In the election of 1860,the Republican Party did not need a single __________ vote to win the presidency.

A) Southern
B) Northern
C) Western
D) centrist

Question 38

How would opponents of slavery have responded to the Fugitive Slave Act,the Dred Scott case,and the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Question 39

According to the Past and Present video in section 13.6,the Republicans knew they would win which presidential election?

A) 1848
B) 1852
C) 1856
D) 1860

Question 40

Before the Civil War,Abraham Lincoln believed that,for the time being,slavery should be __________.

A) allowed in new states
B) banned in existing states
C) allowed in the territories
D) banned in the territories