The Crisis of Union

1) was known as "the Pathfinder" and was the first Republican presidential nominee.

2) In its ruling in the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court stated all but which of the following?

    A) Slavery could not expand into the territories.

    B) Blacks did not have federal citizenship and therefore could not bring suit in federal court.

    C) The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

    D) Blacks were so far inferior to whites that they had no rights a white man was forced to respect.



3) The single event which most convinced white southerners they could no longer live safely in the Union was:

    A) the Dred Scott decision.

    B) the Pottawatomie Massacre.

    C) John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.

    D) defeat of the Lecompton Constitution.



4) The Wilmot Proviso sought to

    A) assure protection of slavery in Texas.

    B) keep slavery out of all territories on the United States.

    C) apply the principle of popular sovereignty to all future territories of the United States.

    D) forbid slavery in any of the lands acquired in the Mexican-American War.



5) Known as the "Little Giant," this Illinois senator debated Lincoln in 1858, but lost his presidential bid in 1860.

6) refers to the civil war in Kansas that started in 1854 between pro- and anti-slavery forces.

7) The Republican party

    A) quickly won voter support in the elections of 1854 and 1855.

    B) prospered because of Northern outrage over "Bleeding Sumner" and "Bleeding Kansas."

    C) won the presidency the first time it fielded a national ticket.

    D) advocated popular sovereignty to defuse the issue of slavery in the territories.



8) The Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in all of the following except:

    A) the restoration of the Missouri Compromise.

    B) the destruction of the Whig party in the South.

    C) the formation of the new Republican party in the North.

    D) virtual civil war in Kansas.



9) To what does "Bleeding Sumner" refer?

    A) Violence in a small town in Kansas.

    B) Violence on the floor of the US Senate.

    C) The agonized pleas on behalf of free labor made by a New York editor.

    D) The threats of secession and armed defense of southern rights made by a southern Congressman.



10) Abraham Lincoln first won national prominence in a series of campaign confrontations known as the Lincoln-Douglas debates. True False

11) Stephen Douglas pushed for the organization of territorial governments in the Louisiana Purchase for all of the following reasons except:

    A) to hasten the opening of the west for the sake of economic development.

    B) to accelerate the process of bringing the Plains Indians under federal control.

    C) to insure that Chicago became the eastern terminus of any transcontinental railroad.

    D) to help fulfill the aims of the Young America Movement, of which Douglas was a typical representative.



12) Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote , novel about life under slavery that helped to rally northern hostility against the fugitive slave law.

13) The aging Henry Clay proposed a compromise package to "escape from crisis," including all the following except:

    A) admission of California as a free state.

    B) admission of Texas as a slave state.

    C) abolition of the slave trade in Washington, DC.

    D) strengthening of the federal fugitive slave law.



14) The doctrine of popular sovereignty was most closely associated with

    A) Stephen A. Douglas.

    B) Daniel Webster.

    C) Zachary Taylor.

    D) David Wilmot.



15) California applied for admission to the union as a state only a few years after it was acquired by the US because the population reached required levels due to the .