HIST 2111 FINAL EXAM
Questions and Answers Verified
Solutions Latest Update
(2026/2027)
Question:
Popular Sovereignty
Answer:
Let the people decide if the states should be slave or free.
Question:
Dred Scott Decision
Answer:
An enslaved man sued for his freedom in 1847, leading to
a crucial Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that African
Americans held no rights
as citizens and that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional.
The decision was
widely denounced in the North and strengthened the new Republican party.
Question:
Bleeding Kansas
Answer:
,Question:
Nickname given to the Kansas Territory in the wake of a
number of clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters in 1856
John Brown
Answer:
American abolitionist who, with 21 followers, captured the U. S.
arsenal at Harper's Ferry as part of an effort to liberate southern slaves. His
group was defeated,
and Brown was hanged after a trial in which he won sympathy as an
abolitionist martyr.
Question:
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Answer:
Congressional legislation drafted by Stephen A. Douglas
that provided that people of new territories could decide for themselves
whether or not their
states would permit slavery.
Question:
Ulysses S. Grant
Answer:
U. S. general and 18th president of the U. S. He commanded
the Union Army during the Civil War.
, Question:
Emancipation Proclamation
Answer:
Document issued by Lincoln that ended slavery in
the Confederacy and turned the war into a war against slavery.
Question:
Thirteenth Amendment
Answer:
Abolishing slavery. Civil War Amendment.
Question:
Fourteenth Amendment
Answer:
Citizenship. Civil War Amendment.
Question:
Fifteenth Amendment
Answer:
All men have the right to vote. Civil War Amendment.
Questions and Answers Verified
Solutions Latest Update
(2026/2027)
Question:
Popular Sovereignty
Answer:
Let the people decide if the states should be slave or free.
Question:
Dred Scott Decision
Answer:
An enslaved man sued for his freedom in 1847, leading to
a crucial Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that African
Americans held no rights
as citizens and that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional.
The decision was
widely denounced in the North and strengthened the new Republican party.
Question:
Bleeding Kansas
Answer:
,Question:
Nickname given to the Kansas Territory in the wake of a
number of clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters in 1856
John Brown
Answer:
American abolitionist who, with 21 followers, captured the U. S.
arsenal at Harper's Ferry as part of an effort to liberate southern slaves. His
group was defeated,
and Brown was hanged after a trial in which he won sympathy as an
abolitionist martyr.
Question:
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Answer:
Congressional legislation drafted by Stephen A. Douglas
that provided that people of new territories could decide for themselves
whether or not their
states would permit slavery.
Question:
Ulysses S. Grant
Answer:
U. S. general and 18th president of the U. S. He commanded
the Union Army during the Civil War.
, Question:
Emancipation Proclamation
Answer:
Document issued by Lincoln that ended slavery in
the Confederacy and turned the war into a war against slavery.
Question:
Thirteenth Amendment
Answer:
Abolishing slavery. Civil War Amendment.
Question:
Fourteenth Amendment
Answer:
Citizenship. Civil War Amendment.
Question:
Fifteenth Amendment
Answer:
All men have the right to vote. Civil War Amendment.
