Deck 13: A House Divided,1840-1861

Question 1

Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?

A) The Methodist Church, the nation's largest denomination, called on all its members to free their slaves.
B) Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave.
C) Members of the abolitionist Republican Party, formed in 1844, insisted on debating slavery.
D) President John Tyler's antislavery policies caused a major proslavery backlash led by John C. Calhoun.
E) As the 1848 constitutional deadline for ending the African slave trade drew near, Americans became obsessed with slavery.

Answer 1

Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave.

Question 2

"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of:

A) Texas.
B) Oregon.
C) California.
D) Mexico.
E) Kansas and Nebraska.

Answer 2

Oregon.

Question 3

Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the United States because:

A) the Texas Republic's congress opposed joining the United States, preferring to stay independent.
B) the Mexican army's resounding victory at the Alamo made them fearful of antagonizing a powerful government.
C) the population of Texas was too small to justify it.
D) Henry Clay wanted to add it and, as the Whig leader, he was their sworn enemy.
E) the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it.

Answer 3

the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it.

Question 4

When "Fifty-four forty or fight" did not result in gaining all of the Pacific Northwest,who most likely would have been the angriest?

A) Southern Democrats.
B) Northern Democrats.
C) Liberty Party members.
D) Northern Whigs.
E) Southern Whigs.

Question 5

Which two political figures agreed to keep the issue of annexing Texas out of the 1844 presidential campaign if possible?

A) John Tyler and John C. Calhoun.
B) Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
C) Henry Clay and Martin Van Buren.
D) Henry Clay and James Polk.
E) Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams.

Question 6

One aspect of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for what?

A) The transfer of Montana to the United States.
B) Payment of $15 million to the Mexican citizenry in the United States and Indians but not the Mexican government.
C) Mexicans to still govern themselves in Texas and New Mexico.
D) U.S. control of all of the Oregon Country.
E) Protection of large Mexican landowners in California.

Question 7

According to John L.O'Sullivan's Democratic Review,what was the key to the history of nations and the rise and fall of empires?

A) Race.
B) Democracy.
C) Economic freedom.
D) Slavery.
E) Printing.

Question 8

As he entered the White House,which of James K.Polk's goals led to war?

A) Reducing the tariff.
B) Settling the slavery dispute.
C) Obtaining Oregon.
D) Bringing California into the Union.
E) Reestablishing the Independent Treasury system.

Question 9

In 1821,the opening of the Santa Fe Trail between Santa Fe and ________ led to a reorientation of New Mexico's commerce from the rest of Mexico to the United States.

A) Houston, Texas,
B) San Diego, California,
C) New Orleans, Louisiana,
D) Omaha, Nebraska,
E) Independence, Missouri,

Question 10

During the Mexican War:

A) Mexican troops occupied much of Texas after winning at the Alamo.
B) the bulk of the fighting occurred in California.
C) for the first time, U.S. troops occupied a foreign capital.
D) an American revolt in California led briefly to a monarchy.
E) Whigs strongly supported Polk's policies.

Question 11

American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s:

A) took place without approval from the Mexican government.
B) did not exceed the Mexican population there until the United States annexed Texas in 1845.
C) led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials.
D) included no slaves, because Mexico had banned slavery in its territory.
E) was in communities whose American-born residents were called Tejanos by their Mexican neighbors.

Question 12

When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821:

A) it was much smaller in area than the United States at the time.
B) California became a major American trading partner within half a decade.
C) its Indian population was relatively large compared to its non-Indian population.
D) its leaders founded new missions in California to assure continued Catholic power.
E) Americans immediately began settling in California in large numbers.

Question 13

After gaining its independence,what resulted in the new independent nation of Texas?

A) Anglos encouraged Tejanos to keep their Mexican customs.
B) Anglos welcomed Juan Seguín, Tejano supporter of Texas independence, as mayor of San Antonio.
C) The Catholic Church lost power in Texas.
D) All Tejanos refused to send their children to English-speaking schools.
E) Most Tejanos converted to Protestant faiths.

Question 14

Who questioned President Polk's right to declare war by introducing a resolution to Congress requesting that the president specify the precise spot where blood had first been shed?

A) Daniel Webster.
B) John C. Calhoun.
C) Stephen Douglas.
D) Abraham Lincoln.
E) Charles Sumner.

Question 15

Why did Mississippi politician Jefferson Davis object in the 1850s to the original design of the Statue of Freedom that now adorns the U.S.Capitol dome?

A) He disliked the fact that the sculptor was a former slave who had won acclaim for his talent, thus suggesting that blacks were as gifted as whites.
B) The use of a soldier as the key figure made the nation appear too militaristic.
C) It portrayed "Freedom" as a nude woman, which he saw as inappropriate.
D) Its use of an ancient Roman liberty cap on "Freedom" raised a touchy matter about slaves' longing for freedom.
E) He believed using "freedom" in the statue's name was a subtle attack on slave states, so he preferred using "justice" instead.

Question 16

Who wrote On Civil Disobedience as a response to the U.S.war with Mexico?

A) Abraham Lincoln.
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
C) David Walker.
D) David Wilmot.
E) Henry David Thoreau.

Question 17

The term "Californios" referred in the 1830s and 1840s to ________ in California.

A) Mexican cattle ranchers
B) the Indian inhabitants
C) U.S.-born immigrants
D) any individual
E) American merchants

Question 18

Until the 1870s,who in essence controlled the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande?

A) Apaches.
B) Comanches.
C) Mexico.
D) Spain.
E) United States.

Question 19

When Democrats demanded the "reannexation" of Texas in 1844,they:

A) implied that Texas had once been part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase.
B) were consciously appealing to northern Whigs.
C) were seeking to take the slavery issue out of the presidential campaign.
D) neglected to say anything about the status of Oregon.
E) realized their stand would not be very popular in the South.

Question 20

For the South in the 1830s,making the Texas territory part of the United States could potentially be most beneficial in what way?

A) Texas would enter the Union as a slave state.
B) The United States would gain valuable oil reserves.
C) There would be no trading with Mexico.
D) Texas was mostly dry, so there was little potential in farming.
E) Several slave states could be created out of Texas.

Question 21

How did the territory acquired from the Mexican War promote Thomas Jefferson's earlier idea of an Empire of Liberty?

A) More land meant more business opportunities.
B) Only people classified as whites gained full rights.
C) Desert farming would attract many American settlers.
D) The national government would have full sovereignty.
E) Lewis and Clark had explored California more than forty years earlier.

Question 22

The opponents of the Compromise of 1850:

A) included key Whig leaders Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
B) received a boost from President Zachary Taylor.
C) were surprised when John C. Calhoun spoke in favor of the Compromise.
D) argued that California must become a free state, which the Compromise did not allow.
E) were thrilled to have the support of influential Vice President Millard Fillmore.

Question 23

The California gold rush:

A) actually had only a small impact on California's population because its rich farmlands already attracted thousands of new settlers each year.
B) attracted almost equal numbers of men and women.
C) resulted in laws that discriminated against "foreign miners."
D) made considerable wealth for average miners because gold mining demanded no real investment of capital.
E) hurt the development of San Francisco because gold discoveries shifted interest to areas outside of town.

Question 24

What was ironic about the Fugitive Slave Act?

A) Only ten slaves were returned to the South.
B) Abolitionists endorsed this federal legislation.
C) Ex-slaves who gained their freedom before 1850 resented the law.
D) The South promoted states' rights, but with this law agreed to strong federal action.
E) It resulted in the North and South gaining more respect for each other's way of life.

Question 25

In the first half of the nineteenth century,the United States gained the most territory through:

A) purchasing territory from Russia.
B) a treaty with Great Britain.
C) purchasing territory from France.
D) wars with Mexico.
E) purchasing territory from Spain.

Question 26

The Free Soil Party:

A) demonstrated that antislavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks.
B) cost Henry Clay the presidency by siphoning off votes from him in New York.
C) was powerful enough to convince James Polk not to seek reelection.
D) strongly opposed the Wilmot Proviso but agreed to let it pass as part of a compromise.
E) nominated Zachary Taylor for president.

Question 27

The Wilmot Proviso,admission of California into the Union,and the Missouri Compromise focused on what?

A) The slaves should be freed immediately.
B) Popular sovereignty needed to be used.
C) Ex-slaves should be sent to another part of the world.
D) A slave should be counted as three-fifths of a person.
E) The extension of slavery was a volatile issue.

Question 28

Winning the Mexican War did what in regard to trade for the United States?

A) Mexico refused to trade with the United States.
B) Native Americans blocked ports in southern California.
C) Gaining valuable trade ports tripled trade with China by 1860.
D) The United States now had to consider going to war with Great Britain for control of the Pacific Coast.
E) The gold rush lessened the need for trade.

Question 29

What happened under the constitution of independent Texas?

A) Slavery was banned.
B) People of color had had more freedoms and rights when Mexico previously controlled Texas.
C) Rights and privileges for free blacks expanded.
D) The government would respect Comanche territory.
E) Land sales by private sellers were prohibited.

Question 30

Analyze the role that manifest destiny played in the California gold rush.What was the result?

A) It led to a diverse group of people migrating to California.
B) It was God's will for California to have gold.
C) The California legislature created a foreign miners' tax.
D) The Native American population grew due to the amount of gold.
E) Californians hid much of their gold, leading to large migrations to Australia.

Question 31

Which of the following statements related to ethnicity was true in California in the 1850s?

A) Thousands of Indian children were declared orphans and treated as slaves.
B) The state recognized more than 15,000 African-Americans as slaves of whites who had moved there.
C) Men of all backgrounds, except those from China, were allowed to vote and serve on juries.
D) Indian communities prospered by renting land and selling supplies to gold miners.
E) Wealthy Mexican landowners dominated the new state government and would do so until the 1880s.

Question 32

Which American naval officer negotiated a treaty that opened two Japanese ports to U.S.ships in 1854?

A) Oliver H. Perry.
B) John Paul Jones.
C) Alfred Mahan.
D) Chester Nimitz.
E) Matthew Perry.

Question 33

Why was the extension of slavery significant politically?

A) It determined whether slavery should end everywhere immediately.
B) Both the North and South wanted to control the Senate.
C) It led to the United States gaining more territory in the Caribbean.
D) It gave the abolitionists control of northern politics.
E) The government mandated that the Methodist church had to be split into two groups.

Question 34

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:

A) won the grudging support of Ralph Waldo Emerson as a necessary compromise.
B) gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement.
C) was declared unconstitutional in the Dred Scott case.
D) angered southerners by weakening an earlier law on fugitive slaves.
E) convinced Abraham Lincoln to retire briefly from political life.

Question 35

The California gold rush turned ________ into perhaps the world's most diverse city.

A) San Diego
B) Los Angeles
C) Malibu
D) Sacramento
E) San Francisco

Question 36

What occurred in 1848 in Europe?

A) There were revolutions against monarchies.
B) The unification of Germany occurred.
C) Italian kingdoms reunified.
D) Napoleon escaped, created an army, and attacked England.
E) The Chartist movement renounced democracy.

Question 37

The opening of Japan to United States trade led to what?

A) Japan created its own minstrel shows.
B) Other nations wanted to carve up Japanese territory.
C) Japan became a modernized military power.
D) The United States became much less interested in China.
E) Japan attacked Russia.

Question 38

In 1846,Congressman David Wilmot proposed to:

A) prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico.
B) allow voters to decide the status of slavery in new territories.
C) divide the Oregon Country between Great Britain and the United States.
D) annex Cuba to avoid southern secession.
E) allow slavery to expand into California and New Mexico.

Question 39

What was a key provision of the Compromise of 1850?

A) California would enter the Union as a slave state.
B) Slavery would be abolished in Washington, D.C.
C) The Oregon Territory would be created.
D) The Fugitive Slave Act gave runaway slaves more protection and guaranteed them a lawyer in court.
E) The New Mexico and Utah Territories would use popular sovereignty to decide about slavery.

Question 40

With the Gadsden Purchase,whose territory increased in size?

A) Canada.
B) Mexico.
C) California.
D) Texas.
E) Arizona.

Question 41

Stephen Douglas's motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to:

A) boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad.
B) spread slavery.
C) win the position of speaker of the House of Representatives.
D) pacify southerners who strongly supported the idea of popular sovereignty.
E) help Franklin Pierce win a second term as president.

Question 42

The Republican presidential candidate in 1856 was:

A) John Breckinridge.
B) Abraham Lincoln.
C) Charles Sumner.
D) John Frémont.
E) James Buchanan.

Question 43

The controversy over the arrest of Anthony Burns in 1854 shows:

A) the problematic nature of the Dred Scott decision.
B) that abolitionists were definitely declining in influence.
C) the unpopularity of the Fugitive Slave Act in parts of the North.
D) the popularity of the Whig Party in the South.
E) that the gag rule had serious consequences well into the 1850s.

Question 44

The Lecompton Constitution was the:

A) antislavery constitution adopted in Nebraska.
B) proslavery constitution proposed for Kansas.
C) pro-secession constitution of North Carolina.
D) Missouri constitution preferred by Abraham Lincoln.
E) compromise offered in 1861 to end the secession crisis.

Question 45

The Dred Scott decision of the U.S.Supreme Court:

A) declared that Congress could not ban slavery from territories.
B) endorsed the free soil policy of the Republicans.
C) backed the idea of popular sovereignty.
D) freed Dred and Harriet Scott.
E) extended the Missouri Compromise line to California.

Question 46

On matters related to citizenship,the U.S.Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that:

A) free African-Americans could vote.
B) anyone that a state considered to be a citizen was a U.S. citizen.
C) freeborn blacks were U.S. citizens, but those born into slavery and later freed could not be citizens.
D) citizenship was limited to males.
E) only white persons could be U.S. citizens.

Question 47

In 1854,the Know-Nothings won all the congressional races as well as the governorship in:

A) Louisiana.
B) South Carolina.
C) Ohio.
D) Massachusetts.
E) Georgia.

Question 48

From 1848 to 1860,most of the railroad construction was in which region?

A) Northeast.
B) Southeast.
C) Southwest.
D) Midwest.
E) West Coast.

Question 49

What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?

A) Its desire to dissolve the Missouri Compromise.
B) Its move to annex Cuba for the expansion of American slavery.
C) Its call for immediate emancipation of all slaves.
D) Its opposition to the Dred Scott decision.
E) Its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants.

Question 50

In the 1850s,which action would be in line with Abraham Lincoln's views on race?

A) Blacks and whites live harmoniously in the same town.
B) An African-American man trains as an artisan and then starts his own business.
C) An African-American man wants the right to vote in Illinois.
D) African-Americans and whites are equals in the court system.
E) African-Americans and whites are treated the same in all aspects of the law.

Question 51

During his debate with Abraham Lincoln in Freeport,Illinois,Stephen Douglas:

A) called for the free soil principle to determine the status of slavery in the West.
B) denounced popular sovereignty as a fraud.
C) praised the temperance movement and other key social reforms.
D) insisted that popular sovereignty was compatible with the Dred Scott decision.
E) argued that slaveholders had a constitutional right to take their slaves anywhere.

Question 52

The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks:

A) showed the extreme violence of which northern abolitionists were capable.
B) actually helped the new Republican Party.
C) was denounced by most southerners as barbaric.
D) occurred because Sumner praised the attack on Lawrence, Kansas.
E) was unusual because both men were proslavery Democrats.

Question 53

In the late 1850s,a white slaveholder living in Mississippi most likely voted for candidates from which political party?

A) Free Soil.
B) Democratic.
C) American.
D) Whig.
E) Republican.

Question 54

The Republican free labor ideology:

A) convinced northerners that Catholic immigrants posed a more significant threat than the southern slave power.
B) won Republicans significant support from non-slaveholders in the South in 1856.
C) owed its origins to Abraham Lincoln's reemergence in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
D) accepted southerners' point that slavery protected their liberty, but explained that the economic benefits of free labor would outweigh the damage abolition would do to southern liberty.
E) led to the argument by Abraham Lincoln and William Seward that free labor and slave labor were essentially incompatible.

Question 55

The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place during the campaign for:

A) U.S. president in 1856.
B) U.S. president in 1860.
C) governor of Illinois in 1858.
D) a congressional seat from Illinois in 1856.
E) U.S. senator from Illinois in 1858.

Question 56

What became a key component of the Underground Railroad in the 1850s?

A) Abolitionists finally agreed to participate in hiding and moving slaves to freedom.
B) Slave catchers also employed the Underground Railroad to return slaves to the South.
C) The Erie Canal became the primary means to get slaves to freedom in Canada.
D) Connections for ships going to Africa were added to the Underground Railroad so that slaves could find a safe refuge among their ancestors.
E) Trains were used more frequently to take slaves to Canada and freedom.

Question 57

Why were the Know-Nothings unable to curb the political influence of Irish immigrants?

A) The pope interceded on behalf of Catholics in America.
B) Southern slaveholders protected the rights of immigrants.
C) The Irish used their strong economic clout to gain political influence.
D) After arriving in the United States, most of the Irish converted to Protestant faiths.
E) Voting rights were being determined by race.

Question 58

The Republican Party founded in the 1850s strongly endorsed the same policy about slavery in the territories that ________ had begun advocating in 1846.

A) David Wilmot
B) Stephen Douglas
C) John C. Calhoun
D) Roger Taney
E) Henry Clay

Question 59

Which event sparked Abraham Lincoln's reentry into politics?

A) Compromise of 1850.
B) Mexican-American War.
C) Dred Scott decision.
D) Raid on Harpers Ferry.
E) Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Question 60

Which of the following is an example of the political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

A) A strong, united Whig Party won the White House in the next presidential election.
B) Nearly half of northern Democrats joined the patriotic American Party.
C) The Whig Party collapsed, and many disgruntled northerners joined the new Republican Party.
D) Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln decided to become running mates for the presidential election of 1856.
E) The new Free Soil Party strongly endorsed the Act and won new congressional seats in several Upper South districts.

Question 61

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Martin Van Buren

A)On Civil Disobedience
B)1848 Free Soil presidential candidate
C)author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
D)tried to attach bill to ban slavery to war declaration
E)author of the Compromise of 1850
F)caned Charles Sumner
G)a slave who sued for his freedom
H)led a raid on Harpers Ferry
I)1860 Republican presidential candidate
J)1860 southern Democratic presidential candidate
K)1856 Republican presidential candidate
L)filibustering

Question 62

In the 1850s,Tennessee-born William Walker became famous for:

A) creating a utopian community in northern California.
B) his proslavery novels that heightened sectionalism.
C) breeding the "Tennessee Walker," a horse prominent in westward expansion.
D) seeking to establish himself as ruler of a slaveholding Nicaragua.
E) defying fellow whites in his native region and becoming a prominent abolitionist.

Question 63

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
William Walker

A)On Civil Disobedience
B)1848 Free Soil presidential candidate
C)author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
D)tried to attach bill to ban slavery to war declaration
E)author of the Compromise of 1850
F)caned Charles Sumner
G)a slave who sued for his freedom
H)led a raid on Harpers Ferry
I)1860 Republican presidential candidate
J)1860 southern Democratic presidential candidate
K)1856 Republican presidential candidate
L)filibustering

Question 64

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
John Brown

A)On Civil Disobedience
B)1848 Free Soil presidential candidate
C)author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
D)tried to attach bill to ban slavery to war declaration
E)author of the Compromise of 1850
F)caned Charles Sumner
G)a slave who sued for his freedom
H)led a raid on Harpers Ferry
I)1860 Republican presidential candidate
J)1860 southern Democratic presidential candidate
K)1856 Republican presidential candidate
L)filibustering

Question 65

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates,what view did Stephen Douglas take?

A) If each state, slave or free, worried only about its own status, then there should be harmony.
B) Douglas believed that the national government should have the final say on whether a state was slave or free.
C) If slavery could be extended to the Pacific, then manifest destiny could be achieved.
D) Douglas stated slavery was wrong but should not be abolished.
E) Slavery needed to be extended to the West Coast so that a transcontinental railroad could be built.

Question 66

Which 1854 document called for the United States to seize Cuba?

A) The Monroe Doctrine.
B) The Ostend Manifesto.
C) The Wilmot Proviso.
D) The Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
E) The Frémont Manifesto.

Question 67

In 1860,which state became the first to pass an ordinance of secession and declare itself separated from the Union?

A) Virginia.
B) Kentucky.
C) Georgia.
D) South Carolina.
E) Tennessee.

Question 68

In the 1860 election,who was the presidential candidate to have significant support in all parts of the country?

A) Abraham Lincoln.
B) John Breckinridge.
C) John Bell.
D) Stephen Douglas.
E) Will Seward.

Question 69

The Democratic Party split in 1860 over the question of whether to:

A) renominate President James Buchanan for a second term.
B) protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty in them.
C) impeach Chief Justice Roger Taney for the Dred Scott decision.
D) endorse the acquisition of Cuba by the United States, thus increasing slave territory.
E) immediately bring Kansas and Nebraska into the Union as slave states.

Question 70

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Abraham Lincoln

A)On Civil Disobedience
B)1848 Free Soil presidential candidate
C)author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
D)tried to attach bill to ban slavery to war declaration
E)author of the Compromise of 1850
F)caned Charles Sumner
G)a slave who sued for his freedom
H)led a raid on Harpers Ferry
I)1860 Republican presidential candidate
J)1860 southern Democratic presidential candidate
K)1856 Republican presidential candidate
L)filibustering

Question 71

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Henry David Thoreau

A)On Civil Disobedience
B)1848 Free Soil presidential candidate
C)author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
D)tried to attach bill to ban slavery to war declaration
E)author of the Compromise of 1850
F)caned Charles Sumner
G)a slave who sued for his freedom
H)led a raid on Harpers Ferry
I)1860 Republican presidential candidate
J)1860 southern Democratic presidential candidate
K)1856 Republican presidential candidate
L)filibustering

Question 72

During the secession winter of 1860-1861,who offered the most widely supported compromise plan in Congress,which allowed the westward extension of the Missouri Compromise line?

A) Abraham Lincoln.
B) John Crittenden.
C) Jefferson Davis.
D) Zachary Taylor.
E) Andrew Johnson.

Question 73

What distinguished John Brown from other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass?

A) Brown only used religion.
B) Brown wanted to send ex-slaves abroad.
C) Brown emphasized violence in freeing slaves.
D) Brown wanted slaves to be freed immediately.
E) Brown hoped to see ex-slaves gain equal rights.

Question 74

By casting their ballots for the Constitutional Unionist candidate John Bell in the 1860 election,what did people in Virginia and Kentucky fear?

A) These voters were afraid that the South would not secede.
B) These voters feared that northern industrialists controlled too much of the economy.
C) The voters did not want South Carolina to take the lead in creating a new government.
D) The voters worried that an impending civil war would lead to war being fought in their respective states.
E) The voters worried that if Stephen Douglas was elected, slavery would be eliminated immediately.

Question 75

The American Civil War began in April 1861,when:

A) Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter.
B) U.S. naval vessels bombarded the city of Wilmington, North Carolina.
C) Confederate and Union cavalry clashed in disputed territory in Texas.
D) General William Sherman led Union soldiers on a devastating march through Georgia.
E) Confederate infantry attacked Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Question 76

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Dred Scott

A)On Civil Disobedience
B)1848 Free Soil presidential candidate
C)author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
D)tried to attach bill to ban slavery to war declaration
E)author of the Compromise of 1850
F)caned Charles Sumner
G)a slave who sued for his freedom
H)led a raid on Harpers Ferry
I)1860 Republican presidential candidate
J)1860 southern Democratic presidential candidate
K)1856 Republican presidential candidate
L)filibustering

Question 77

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
John Frémont

A)On Civil Disobedience
B)1848 Free Soil presidential candidate
C)author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
D)tried to attach bill to ban slavery to war declaration
E)author of the Compromise of 1850
F)caned Charles Sumner
G)a slave who sued for his freedom
H)led a raid on Harpers Ferry
I)1860 Republican presidential candidate
J)1860 southern Democratic presidential candidate
K)1856 Republican presidential candidate
L)filibustering

Question 78

Analyzing the maneuvering of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln around Fort Sumter,who was superior?

A) Davis gained the most essential fort in the South.
B) Lincoln was too weak-willed to be president.
C) Lincoln failed to walk the tightrope.
D) Lincoln made the South look like the aggressor.
E) Davis was able to prevent a northern invasion of the Confederacy for two years.

Question 79

Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry,Virginia,in 1859?

A) Frederick Douglass.
B) Joseph Lane.
C) Robert E. Lee.
D) Henry Ward Beecher.
E) John Brown.

Question 80

What key component of the 1860 Republican platform had never before been part of a major party's platform?

A) There should be no national banking system.
B) Slavery should be abolished in the Upper South.
C) The government needed to protect industry with a tariff.
D) Federal money should be used to improve and extend transportation.
E) Slavery should not be extended into new states and territories.