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Chapter 15 HOMEWORK
Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some
letters may not be used at all. Some may be used more than once.
A. Henry Clay
B. Compromise of 1850
C. Stephen A. Douglas
D. Free-Soil Party
E. Daniel Webster
F. Wilmot Proviso
1. This proposed to outlaw slavery in any territory gained from the war with Mexico.
2. This was dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.
3. He had the job of winning approval in Congress for the Compromise of 1850.
4. This settled the controversy over statehood for California and the issue of slavery in the
other territories gained from Mexico.
5. He supported the Compromise of 1850 in order to keep the nation from breaking apart.
6. He created a plan to settle the issue of statehood for California that satisfied both
Northerners and Southerners.
7. Why was the question of whether to allow slavery in the territories of the United States such
an important issue for Northerners and Southerners?
Choose the letter of the best answer.
8. The Kansas-Nebraska Act called for
A. a ban on slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.
B. land in Kansas and Nebraska to be given
to escaped slaves.
9. What was the impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A. It angered many Northerners because it
described slavery as a positive experience
for the slave.
B. White Southerners charged that the book
did not portray slavery accurately.
C. the residents of Kansas and Nebraska
vote to decide the issue of slavery.
D. the punishment of slaveholders in Kansas
for attacks on antislavery settlers.
C. It convinced some Northerners to support
the Fugitive Slave Act.
D. It caused proslavery settlers to attack
antislavery settlers in Kansas.
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10. The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was
A. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
B. Simon Legree.
C. Stephen A.Douglas.
D. Frederick Douglass.
11. Stephen A. Douglas tried to win Southern support for Kansas-Nebraska Act by allowing the
issue of slavery in these territories to be settled by
A. representative government.
C. primary elections.
B. republicanism.
D. popular sovereignty.
12. What role did John Brown play in the slavery controversy?
A. introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in
C. murdered several proslavery settlers in
Congress
Kansas
B. attacked an antislavery senator in the
D. fought for passage of the Fugitive Slave
Senate
Act
13. Why did many Northerners oppose the Fugitive Slave Act? Why did most white Southerners
support it?
Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some
letters may not be used at all. Some may be used more than once.
A. John Brown
B. James Buchanan
C. John C. Frémont
D. Abraham Lincoln
E. Republican Party
F. Roger Taney
14. This explorer and national hero became the Republican Party's candidate for president in
1856.
15. Hoping to seize weapons for a slave rebellion, this radical abolitionist captured a U.S.
arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
16. This Chief Justice of the Supreme Court deepened the divisions between North and South
with his ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
17. This new political party was formed by Free-Soilers, Northern Whigs, and Democrats who
opposed the spread of slavery.
18. By winning in all but one of the slave states, this Democrat was elected president in 1856.
19. Although he lost a Senate race in 1858, this Illinois Republican became nationally known
because of debates with his opponent during the campaign.
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20. Summarize the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford. Why were Northerners
were so upset by it? Explain.
Choose the letter of the best answer.
21. Which of the following is true about the Democratic Party's platform in the election of
1860?
A. It called for popular sovereignty to decide
C. It split into Northern Democrats and
on slavery in territories.
Southern Democrats.
B. It chose Stephen A. Douglas as the party's
D. All of the above.
presidential candidate.
22. What happened when the Southern states seceded?
A. They refused to take part in the election
C.
of 1860.
B. They supported John Breckinridge as the
D.
Democrats' presidential candidate in
1860.
23. The Confederate States of America were
A. a group of Northern states united to bring
an end to slavery.
B. an agreement among Southern states to
work together to fight laws against
slavery.
They nullified the results of the 1860
election.
They dissolved their ties to the United
States.
C. the slaveholding states that seceded
from the Union.
D. a new political party created by Southern
Democrats.
24. The Crittenden Plan was
A. a proposal to save the nation from
splitting by compromising on slavery.
B. Lincoln's strategy to force the South back
into the Union.
C. an act passed by Congress making
secession a crime.
D. a strategy for keeping the Democratic
Party from splitting in 1860.
25. The president of the Confederacy was
A. John Bell.
B. Jefferson Davis.
C. Stephen A. Douglas.
D. Frederick Douglass.
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26. How did the slavery issue affect the Democratic Party in the 1860 presidential election?
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