Deck 3: The 1850s and Secession

Question 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in response to the Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Preston Brooks of South Carolina attacked Senator Charles Sumner for a speech in which Sumner criticized Brooks' cousin.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Abraham Lincoln ran on an anti-slavery platform.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Pro-Union sentiment was common in the Upper South, particularly in Tennessee, Maryland, and Virginia.

Question 5

Lincoln sought to alleviate the fears of southerners in his First Inaugural address by pledging not to oppose the extension of slavery into the western territories.

Question 6

Joshua Glover fled from bondage in St. Louis and settled in this state because of its proximity to Canada.

A) Oregon
B) New York
C) Maine
D) Wisconsin

Question 7

This was a group of black and white abolitionists who offered protection to runaway slaves

A) Vigilance Committee
B) American Colonization Society
C) Freedom Brigade
D) Free Soil Society

Question 8

John C. Fremont's presidential campaign slogan contained all but one of the following.

A) Free Soil
B) Free Land
C) Free Labor
D) Free Men

Question 9

In what would come to be known as the Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglas argued which of the following?

A) Only Congress should have power to ban slavery
B) Only the new western states should have the power to ban slavery
C) Only the Supreme Court should have power to ban slavery
D) Only the citizens of states bordering the territories should have the power to ban slavery

Question 10

John Brown's participation in the Pottawatomie Massacre occurred in which of the following states?

A) Kansas
B) Nebraska
C) Virginia
D) South Carolina

Question 11

Which of the following states seceded from the United States after the attack on Fort Sumter?

A) South Carolina
B) Texas
C) Virginia
D) Alabama

Question 12

The Upper South states rejected secession for all but one of the following reasons.

A) They viewed secession as a radical and extreme move
B) They still held out hope that the crisis could be averted
C) They were not economically dependent on the North
D) They knew that if war did erupt their states would be in the middle of the conflict