Answer the following questions related to the period leading to the Civil War
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1
Which political party is associated with opposition to immigration and support of native-born Americans?
Democratic
Whig
Know-Nothing
Free Soil
Republican
2
Which political party favored Western expansion, a strong federal government and abolition of slavery?
Democratic
Whig
Know Nothing
Free Soil
Republican
3
Which political party favored Western expansion, popular sovereignty and states' rights?
Democratic
Whig
Know Nothing
Free Soil
Republican
4
Which one of the following was NOT a result of the election of 1860?
The nation now had a president who had virtually no support in the South.
The Republican party divided over the issue of slavery in the territories.
The Democratic party divided into hostile northern and southern whings.
The winner won less than a majority of the popular vote.
5
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" aroused northern outrage over the implications of the
Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott decision
6
To decide the fate of slavery in the territories, Stephen Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska bill applied the same concept that had been used in the
Missouri Compromise
Wilmot Proviso
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott decision
Raid on Harpers Ferry
7
Which of the following statements about "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is NOT true?
It presented slavery as a moral problem.
It increased anger over the Fugitive Slave Law.
It was based on a true story.
It was written by a northern abolitionist,
It became one of the most influential books in American history
8
Abraham Lincoln's "house divided" speech suggested that
the South should have a separate House of Representatives.
the nation could not go on half slave and half free.
Stephen Douglas was an abolitionist.
the South should free its slaves immediately.
9
Lincoln was able to win the election of 1860 largely because
abolitioinists had become the majority.
free blacks in the North supported him.
the Democratic party split in two.
Douglas threw his support behind Lincoln.
10
Lincoln did not use force against the Confederacy because he
did not want to risk losing the support of slave states still in the Union.
did not have the power to command the armed forces.
did not think the federal forts in the South were important.
believed that states had the right to leave the Union.
11
The Dred Scott decision angered northerners because it
said the Republican party was unconstitutional.
allowed slavery in all territories.
said John Brown was guilty of murder.
upheld the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
12
Which of the following statements was probably made by a southerner?
"No state can lawfully leave the Union."
"I speak not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a northern man, but as an American. I speak for preservatin of the Union."
"Let the states agree to separate and part in peace."
"Only Congress has the power to end slavery."
13
This party endorsed the Wilmot Proviso.
Whig Party
Free-Soil Party
Know-Nothing Party
Republican Party
Democratic Party
14
What was the main provision of the Fugitive Slave Law?
Slaves were free if they got to the North.
The Underground Railroad was legalized.
Southerners could not pursue escaped slaves.
Aiding runaway slaves was a crime.
15
What was one of the main consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
peaceful elections in Kansas
an end to the slavery debate in Congress
the admission of Kansas as a slave state
violence between proslavery and antislavery forces in Kansas
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