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Advanced US History Ch. 15 Exam Review
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The admission of Missouri as a slave state was controversial in the Senate because
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Henry Clay's compromise became known as ________________.
Which party endorsed the Wilmot Proviso? ________________.
Enforcement of the Fugitive Act led to ________________.
What did Franklin Pierce become in 1853? ________________.
Stephen A. Douglas proposed letting the people decide about slavery through ________________.
In the congressional election of 1858, the Senate race in what state was the center of national
attention? _________
The main topic of the Lincoln–Douglas debates was ________________.
Who was not a presidential candidate in 1860? ________________.
Southerners justified secession with the theory of ________________.
The main issue in the election of 1844 was the annexation of ________________.
What plan specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from
Mexico? ___________
A person could be fined up to $1,000, or be imprisoned for breaking the law, stated in the
________________.
What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system? ________________.
What was the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery? ________________.
In the election of 1856, the presidency was secured for James Buchanan by ________________.
What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more? ________________.
Douglas's stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders'
rights came to be known as ________________.
The 1860 presidential candidate whose name did not appear on the ballot in most Southern states was
_______________.
Who was the senator from Kentucky who tried to save the Union by proposing a last-minute
compromise? ________________.
“The existence of slavery impairs the industry and the power of a nation; and it does so in proportion to the
multiplication of its slaves . . .
“If slavery be permitted in Missouri, with the climate and soil and in the circumstances of this territory,
what hope can be entertained that it will ever be prohibited in any of the new states that will be formed in the
immense region west of the Mississippi?”
–Senator Rufus King, Nile’s Weekly Register, December 4, 1819
“Rob us of our just portion of the territory which has been jointly purchased by the treasures of the nation and
the valley of the Mississippi will be settled by the sons of the Eastern people, the inheritors of their fathers'
prejudices . . .
“And when they have succeeded in excluding from the Western settlements every Southern man, and
shall have sent forth in every direction swarms from the Northern hive, and missionary preachers against the
cruelties and inhumanities of Southern slavery, a universal emancipation may be the next scheme suggested
by visionary philanthropists or promoted by designing politicians.”
–Anonymous, Richmond Enquirer, December 23, 1819
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Compare the two statements and decide which issue in the region west of the Mississippi most
concerns both these two individuals. ________________.
“The deed is done. The . . . chains of slavery are forged for [many] yet unborn. Humble yourselves in the dust, ye
high-minded citizens of Connecticut. Let your cheeks be red as crimson. On your representatives rests the stigma
of this foul disgrace.”
–from a Connecticut newspaper, 1820
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These strong words of criticism were a response to members of Congress who had helped pass the
________________.
“. . .[T]his momentous question, like a firebell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered
it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a
final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived
and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it
deeper and deeper.”
–Thomas Jefferson, letter to a Massachusetts congressman
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This excerpt expresses Jefferson’s alarm about the recent passage of the ________________.
“I have favored this Missouri Compromise, believing it to be all that could be effected under the present
Constitution, and from extreme unwillingness to put the Union at hazard. But perhaps it would have been a
wiser as well as a bolder course to have persisted in the restriction upon Missouri, till it should have
terminated in a convention of the states to revise and amend the Constitution. This would have produced a
new Union of thirteen or fourteen States, unpolluted with slavery, . . . . If the Union must be dissolved,
slavery is precisely the question upon which it ought to break. . . .”
–John Quincy Adams, March 3, 1820
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In his diary entry, John Quincy Adams describes which alternate solution to the issues dealt with in the
Missouri Compromise? ________________.
“An't I yer master? Didn't I pay down twelve hundred dollars cash, for all there is inside yer old cussed
black shell? An't yer mine, now, body and soul?" he said, giving Tom a violent kick with his heavy boot; "tell
me!"
In the very depth of physical suffering, bowed by brutal oppression, this question shot a gleam of joy and
triumph through Tom's soul. He suddenly stretched himself up, and, . . he exclaimed, "No! no! no! my soul
an't yours, Mas'r! You haven't bought it,—ye can't buy it! It's been bought and paid for, by one that is able to
keep it;—no matter, no matter, you can't harm me!"
–Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852
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In this passage, the slaveowner Simon Legree treats the slave Tom as _____.
“Slave hunters—there go the slave hunters.”
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When antislavery groups followed federal agents in the early 1850s and shouted this quotation at them,
against which recent law were they protesting? ________________.
“Free soil, free speech, and Frémont.”
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Which political party used this campaign slogan during the presidential election of 1856?
________________.
“Upon these considerations, it is the opinion of the court that the Act of Congress [the Missouri Compromise]
which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States
north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void; and that
neither Dred Scott himself, nor any of his family, were made free by being carried into this territory; even if
they had been carried there by the owner, with the intention of becoming a permanent resident. . . .”
–Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, decision on Dred Scott v. Sandford, March 6, 1857
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Many Southerners were pleased by this decision because it said ________________.
“. . . Can the people of a territory in any lawful way, against the wishes of any citizen of the United States,
exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a state constitution? . . . [T]he people have the
lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an
hour anywhere unless it is supported by local police regulations. Those police regulations can only be
established by the local legislature, and, if the people are opposed to slavery, they will elect representatives to
that body who will by unfriendly legislation effectually prevent the introduction of it into their midst. . . .”
–Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln–Douglas debate, August 27, 1858
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In this passage, the position Douglas states became known as the ________________.
“[The real issue is] between the men who think slavery a wrong and those who do not think it wrong. The
Republican Party thinks it wrong.”
–Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln–Douglas Debates, 1858
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After the Lincoln–Douglas Debates, who won the election to the seat of U.S. Senator from Illinois?
________________.
“As he stepped out of the door, a black woman, with a little child in her arms, stood near his way. . . . He
stopped for a moment in his course, stooped over, and with the tenderness of one whose love is as broad
as the brotherhood of man, kissed the child affectionately.”
–The Execution of John Brown,” The Anglo-African Magazine, December 1859
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The bias in favor of John Brown by the writer of this passage is demonstrated by ________________.
“It was a sense of the wrongs which we have suffered that prompted that noble but unfortunate Captain
Brown and his associates to attempt to give freedom to a small number, at least, of those who are now held
by cruel and unjust laws, and by no less cruel and unjust men. . . . I fully believe that not only myself, but
also all three of my poor comrades who are to ascend the same scaffold (a scaffold already made sacred to the
cause of freedom by the death of that great champion of human freedom, Captain John Brown), are prepared
to meet our God.”
–John Copeland, black man in John Brown’s group, letter to his brother
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The writer of this passage, along with many others, felt that John Brown was ________________.
“As a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation, and henceforth our energies must
be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, . . . If a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably
to pursue our separate political career my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. But if this be denied to us . .
. [we will be forced] to appeal to arms. . . .”
–February 18, 1861
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This statement of separation is a quotation from ________________.
“Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build
an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond
the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country can not do this. . . .
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.”
–March 4, 1861
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Who made this statement about secession? ________________.
“My heart has been rent [torn] by . . . the destruction of my country—the dismemberment of that great and
glorious Union.”
–A South Carolinian
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This quotation indicates that some Southerners were _____ about secession.
What event occurred in the United States in the same year that Alexander II freed the serfs in
Russia? ________________.
won the 1848 presidential election ___________________
Henry Clay's plan ___________________
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin ___________________
ruled on Dred Scott decision ___________________
Stephen Douglas's response to slavery ___________________
proposed Missouri Compromise ___________________
formed on February 4, 1861 ___________________
violent abolitionist ___________________
opponent of Abraham Lincoln ___________________
first attack of the Civil War ___________________
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