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Chapter 8 - Sectional Conflict Intensifies
1) The large amount of territory won from Mexico as a result of the War with Mexico increased
sectional tensions over the spread of slavery.
a) True
b) False
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2) The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin depicted African Americans as real people imprisoned in dreadful
circumstances.
a) True
b) False
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3) The Fugitive Slave Act required ordinary citizens to help capture runaways.
a) True
b) False
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4) Disagreement about the Kansas-Nebraska Act destroyed the Whig Party.
a) True
b) False
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5) Dred Scott was a Missouri slaveholder who had taken an enslaved man to live in free territory
before returning with him to Missouri.
a) True
b) False
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6) Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 without Southern support.
a) True
b) False
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7) The Calhoun Resolutions were important because they demonstrated
a) the South’s desire to ban the slave trade.
b) the acceptance of popular sovereignty in the North.
c) the anger many Southerners felt about threats to slavery.
d) the appeal to Northerners of expanding slavery westward.
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8) In 1849 thousands of people came to California because
a) it was a free state.
b) it offered cheap land.
c) gold had been discovered there.
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d) it was a slave state.
9) The Know-Nothings were
a) antislavery and nativist.
c) anti-Catholic and nativist.
b) antislavery and anti-Catholic.
d) pro-slavery and anti-Catholic.
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10) Crittenden's Compromise proposed to
a) extend the Missouri Compromise line westward.
b) prohibit slavery in Nebraska but allow it in Kansas.
c) prohibit slavery from expanding into the western territories.
d) require new states to enter the Union in free-slave pairs.
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11) In his inaugural speech, President Lincoln
a) threatened to attack the seceded states if they did not return to the Union.
b) repeated his commitment not to interfere with slavery where it already existed.
c) repeated his commitment to abolishing slavery.
d) threatened to attack if the South did not return the federal forts it had seized.
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12) According to the chart, which of the following is true about the number of enslaved people in the
Southern states during the period from 1790 to 1850?
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a) The number roughly doubled.
b) The number increased by less than 1
million.
c) The number increased by more than 2.5
million.
d) The number showed a slight decline.
13) "'[I]f you teach that [boy] to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be
a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master. As to himself,
it could do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It would make him discontented and
unhappy.' These words sank deep into my heart. . . . From that moment, I understood the
pathway from slavery to freedom."
—Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The speaker in the above quotation feared that if young Douglass learned to read, then he
would
a) become informed about the world.
b) learn of life outside slavery.
c) learn of opportunities he had not thought of before.
d) no longer be mentally content to accept his enslaved status.
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14) The Wilmot Proviso, which never passed, would have
a) prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico.
b) prevented Congress from banning slavery in any territory gained from Mexico.
c) created a compromise by dividing the territories into free states and slave states.
d) made it easier for slaveholders to retrieve an enslaved person.
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15) In the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay grouped his resolutions in pairs so that
a) members of Congress could then vote on each pair separately from the others.
b) each pair could comprise a bill.
c) the pairings made the large proposal easier for all to understand.
d) each pair offered concessions to both sides.
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16) The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad was
a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
b) Harriet Tubman.
c) Frederick Douglass.
d) Simon Legree.
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17) The caning of Charles Sumner resulted from him accusing other senators of
a) taking bribes to vote against slavery in the new territories.
b) taking bribes to vote for slavery in the new territories.
c) inciting thousands of “border ruffians” from Missouri to storm into Kansas.
d) forcing Kansas into the ranks of slave states.
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18) The Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case
a) outlawed slavery in the territories.
b) ruled Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
c) settled the slavery issue.
d) freed an enslaved man.
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19) John Brown's intention in raiding the arsenal at Harpers Ferry was to arm
a) slaveholders so they could defend themselves against a slave insurrection.
b) Virginians for civil war.
c) his followers so they could overthrow the federal government.
d) enslaved people and begin an insurrection against slaveholders.
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20) The Confederate Constitution stated that each state
a) could impose protective tariffs.
b) could decide to halt slavery.
c) was independent.
d) elected its own president.
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21) "The great variety of the local institutions in the States, springing from differences in the soil,
differences in the face of the country, and in the climate, are bonds of Union. They do not make
'a house divided against itself,' but they make a house united. . . . But can this question of
slavery be considered as among these varieties in the institutions of the country?"
—Abraham Lincoln
In this passage, Lincoln defends his idea that
a) all states should have the same goals and values.
b) being against slavery does not mean he is against the individual rights of states.
c) a variety of opinions is not necessarily best.
d) the strong bond which slavery has brought to the South must be broken to achieve a more
perfect union.
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22) According to the map below, which was the next state after South Carolina to secede from the
Union?
a) Virginia
b) Georgia
c) Alabama
d) Mississippi
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23) Anger over the Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in a new coalition that became the __________
Party.
a) Free-Soil
b) Know-Nothing
c) Republican
d) Liberty
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24) Who was the Quaker underground railway conductor who allowed thousands of escaped
African Americans to stay at his home in Indiana?
a) Isaac Brandt
b) John Brown
c) William Lloyd Garrison
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d) Levi Coffin
25) Who asked the U.S. Supreme Court to declare him a free man, arguing that the time he had
spent in free territory had ended his enslavement?
a) John Sanford
b) Roger B. Taney
c) Dred Scott
d) Frederick Douglass
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26) "[T]he right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. . . . And
no word can be found in the Constitution which gives Congress a greater power over slave
property, or which entitles property of that kind to less protection than property of any other
description. . . ."
—Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
What controversial 1857 Supreme Court ruling is quoted in the excerpt?
a) Plessy v. Ferguson
b) McCulloch v. Maryland
c) Dred Scott v. Sandford
d) Marbury v. Madison
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27) Which of the following best completes the chart?
a) Slavery is banned in Washington, D.C.
b) Missouri is admitted as a slave state.
c) Maine is admitted as a free state.
d) California is admitted as a free state.
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Each item in the list was part of the Southern way of thinking in the debate leading to the
Compromise of 1850. Put these items into the proper sequence illustrated in the diagram. Write the
correct letters from the diagram in the blanks provided.
28)
a
the South losing power in national
politics
29)
c
California entered the Union as a
free state
30)
b
a) C
b) D
c) A
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limits being placed on slavery
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31) Which of the following nominated Abraham Lincoln?
a) Southern Democrats
b) Northern Democrats
c) Republicans
d) Constitutional Unionists
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32) Which of the following nominated John Bell?
a) Southern Democrats
b) Northern Democrats
c) Republicans
d) Constitutional Unionists
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33) Which of the following wanted to uphold both the Constitution and the Union?
a) Southern Democrats
b) Northern Democrats
c) Republicans
d) Constitutional Unionists
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34) Which of the following supported the Dred Scott decision?
a) Southern Democrats
b) Northern Democrats
c) Republicans
d) Constitutional Unionists
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35)
a
Martial Law
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d
Bleeding Kansas
37)
c
Fugitive Slave Act
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e
Stephen A. Douglas
39)
b
Henry Clay
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f
Secession
a) imposed on Baltimore by Lincoln to prevent
the secession of Maryland
b) primary author of the Compromise of 1850;
nicknamed "The Great Compromiser"
c) helped Southerners recover enslaved African
Americans who had fled.
d) first battleground between those favoring the
extension of slavery and those opposing it
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e) defeated Abraham Lincoln twice in Senate
elections; nicknamed "The Little Giant"
f) withdrawal from the Union
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