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The Lincoln-Douglas debates resulted in all of the following EXCEPT A) Lincoln's emergence as a national political figure B) increased support for Douglas in the South C) Douglas' reelection to the Senate D) Douglas' attempt to reconcile popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott decision E) increased public awareness of slavery as a moral issue - ANSWER B. All of the following statements about the election of 1860 are true EXCEPT A) The Republicans won control of the presidency but not Congress B) No candidate received a majority of the popular vote C) The popular and electoral votes were divided among four candidates D) Lincoln's majority in the electoral college was secured with the division of the Democratic Party in 1860 E) A major consequence was that several southern states seceded from the Union - ANSWER A. The concept of popular sovereignty involves A) squatter's rights to free land in the West B) the open sale of land in the Mexican cession C) removal of Native Americans from the Great Plains D) the enforcement of fugitive slave laws E) territorial citizens choosing to be free or slave - ANSWER E. Despite being made up of members from various parties, the Republicans held firm in their belief that A) slavery was morally wrong B) popular sovereignty was the proper course of action C) the South had the right to leave the Union D) slavery should not be extended into the territories E) the Dred Scott decision was justified by the Constitution - ANSWER D. The best example of rising sectional tensions caused by westward expansion in antebellum America can be seen in A) the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo B) the Bear Flag Republic C) the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty D) the Wilmot Proviso E) the failure to annex Texas - ANSWER D. "You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights." - William Lloyd Garrison This words would most likely have come from A) the Free Soil Party Platform B) sermons of the 2nd Great Awakening C) the abolitionist paper The Liberator D) the book, Cannibals All E) Reconstruction Congressional Records - ANSWER C. By the outbreak of the Civil War, the South differed from the North in that the South A) had a more developed transportation system B) boasted a more educated white citizenry C) contained more cities than the North D) attracted fewer European immigrants E) allowed women to vote in local elections - ANSWER D. Which of the following is NOT one of the terms of the Compromise of 1850? A) A stronger fugitive slave act B) California would be admitted as a free state C) Popular sovereignty would be used to settle the slavery issue in New Mexico and Utah D) Slavery would end in Washington, D.C. E) The Texas/New Mexico border dispute was settled with a government payment - ANSWER D. The Fugitive Slave Law included all of the following provisions EXCEPT: A) the requirement that the Canadian government return runaways to the U.S. B) denial of a jury trial for alleged runaway slaves C) denial of fleeing slaves' right to testify on their own behalf D) penalties such as fines and jail time for northerners who helped runaways E) court cases for alleged runaways being held in federal courts - ANSWER A. The Free Soilers condemned slavery because A) of the harm it did to blacks B) of moral principles C) it destroyed the employment chances for white workers D) it was the only way they had to counter the appeal of the Democratic Party E) it damaged the national economy - ANSWER C. Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement regarding Uncle Tom's Cabin and its legacy? A) It was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe as a sentimental novel B) It was written in response to the harsher terms of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act C) Uncle Tom's Cabin was comprised of Stowe's first-hand observations of the evils of slavery and the recollections of other long-time personal witnesses to the evils of slavery D) It polarized the nation - with Southerners feeling like they were typecast as "Simon Legrees". E) It forced Southerners to escalate their defense of the institution - citing Biblical and historical accounts of slavery as their justification - ANSWER C. The clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed A) the seriousness of political divisions in the north B) the importance of honor to northerners C) the fact that, despite divisions over slavery, the House of Representatives would unite to expel a member for bad conduct D) the fact that passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both north and south E) the division between the House and the Senate over slavery - ANSWER D. Arrange these events in chronological order (A) Dred Scott decision; (B) LincolnDouglas Debates; (C) Kansas-Nebraska Act; (D) Harpers Ferry Raid. A) A, C, B, D B) B, D, C, A C) C, A, B, D D) D, B, A, C E) A, C, D, B - ANSWER C. For a majority of northerners, the most outrageous part of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case was A) that as a slave Scott had no right to sue in federal court B) that Scott did not automatically become free when his owner took him through free states and territories C) that Congress never had any power to prohibit slavery in any territory D) that slaveowners had the right to flood into territories so as to control popular sovereignty E) that the Bill of Rights did not apply even to free African-Americans - ANSWER C. Secessionists supported leaving the Union because A) they were dismayed by the success of the Republican party B) they believed that the North would not oppose their departure C) the political balance seemed to be tipping against them D) they were tired of abolitionist attacks E) all of the above - ANSWER E. Which of the following early American political parties most vocally championed the "common man," welcomed immigrants, and benefitted from the expansion of voting rights to most white males? A) The Federalists B) The Democratic-Republicans Feedback: The Democratic-Republicans were less elite and championed "simplicity," but they did not favor broad democracy or welcome immigrants. C) The Whigs D) The Democrats - ANSWER D. Antebellum era reform movements such as abolitionism, temperance, and women's rights had their origins in all of the following EXCEPT A) the Monroe Doctrine. Feedback: None of the antebellum-era reform movements had their origins in the Monroe Doctrine. President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to prevent European nations from pursuing further efforts to create colonies in the Western Hemisphere. B) the Second Great Awakening. C) beliefs in human perfectibility. D) liberal European social ideas. - ANSWER A. "I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane and idiotic men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the most unconcerned would start with real horror; of beings wretched in our Prisons, and more wretched in our Alms-Houses....I proceed, Gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of Insane Persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience!...The crying evil and abuse of institutions, is not confined to our almshouses. The warden of a populous prison near this metropolis, populous, not with criminals only, but with the insane in almost every stage of insanity...has declared that: "the prison has often more resembled the infernal regions than any place on earth!"...Gentlemen, I commit to you this sacred cause. Your action upon - ANSWER D. "I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane and idiotic men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the most unconcerned would start with real horror; of beings wretched in our Prisons, and more wretched in our Alms-Houses....I proceed, Gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of Insane Persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience!...The crying evil and abuse of institutions, is not confined to our almshouses. The warden of a populous prison near this metropolis, populous, not with criminals only, but with the insane in almost every stage of insanity...has declared that: "the prison has often more resembled the infernal regions than any place on earth!"...Gentlemen, I commit to you this sacred cause. Your action upon - ANSWER A. "[I promise]...to demonstrate in the course of...my Appeal...that we Coloured People of these United States, are, the most wretched, degraded and abject set of beings that ever lived since the world began, down to the present day, and that the white Christians of America, who hold us in slavery, (or, more properly speaking, pretenders to Christianity,) treat us more cruel and barbarous than any Heathen nation did any people whom it had subjected, or reduced to the same condition....I advance it therefore to you...as an unshaken and forever immoveable fact, that your full glory and happiness, as well as all other coloured people under Heaven, shall never be fully consummated, but with the entire emancipation of your enslaved brethren all over the world." David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1829 David Walker, Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, To the Coloured Citizens o - ANSWER A. The concept of popular sovereignty held that A) Congress had the sole right to determine where slavery would exist B) citizens living within the new territory would decide for themselves on the existence of slavery C) individual property holders will decide whether or not to hold slaves D) a national referendum vote decided the slavery issue for new states E) state courts had the right to overturn citizens' decisions regarding slavery - ANSWER B. The Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott case outraged public opinion in the North chiefly because it A) declared the Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional B) guaranteed citizenship to free blacks C) removed restrictions against the spread of slavery into the western territories D) failed to abolish slavery in the South E) challenged California's status as a free state - ANSWER C. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased sectional tensions because it A) enriched northern railroad investors at the expense of the South B) reopened the issue of slavery in the territory north of 36o30' C) supported proslavery state constitutions in Kansas and Nebraska D) repealed the Compromise of 1850 E) persuaded the Whig Party to side with South - ANSWER B. Match each presidential candidate in the 1860 election below with his party's position on the slavery question. A. Abraham Lincoln 1. extend slavery in the territories B. Stephen Douglas 2. ban slavery from the territories C. John Breckinridge 3. preserve the Union by compromise D. John Bell 4. enforce popular sovereignty A) A-3; B-2; C-1; D-4 B) A-2; B-4; C-1; D-3 C) A-4; B-3; C-2; D-1 D) A-2; B-1; C-4; D-3 E) A-3; B-4; C-1; D-2 - ANSWER B. After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the South concluded that A) the raid was an isolated incident B) the U.S. army could not protect slavery C) the justice system did not work D) Brown had been attempting to defend his own right to own slaves E) the North was dominated by people supportive and/or sympathetic to Brown - ANSWER E. Sumner-Brooks Cartoon American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA / The Bridgeman Art Library The sentiments such as those depicted in the cartoon above most directly contributed to which of the following? A) Breakdown in trust between sectional leaders Feedback: The sentiments depicted in this cartoon, which featured South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks's nearly fatal beating of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate in 1856, reinforced and intensified Northerners' views of Southerners as twisted and violent. This incident of violence contributed to the breakdown in trust between the leaders of the North and those of the South. B) The willingness of abolitionists to use violence to achieve their goals C) Repeated attempts at political compromise D) The secession of Southern states - ANSWER A. This question is based on the 1856 political cartoon below. Sumner-Brooks Cartoon American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA / The Bridgeman Art Library Which group was most likely the intended audience of the cartoon above? A) White Americans in the South B) State governments in the North Feedback: This cartoon was not intended for an audience of Northern state governments. C) Members of the Republican Party D) Voluntary organizations promoting religious and secular reforms - ANSWER C.