Deck 12: The Union in Peril

Question 1

Northerners supported all of the following EXCEPT

A) public education and temperance laws.
B) the rights of free labor.
C) immigration and trade restrictions.
D) policies favoring industrial growth.

Answer 1

immigration and trade restrictions.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

True

Question 3

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

Answer 3

False

Question 4

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

Question 5

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.

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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.

Question 14

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

Question 15

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."

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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