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Foy Ch. 15 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What act divided what was left of the Louisiana Purchase in two? | Kansas Nebraska Act |
| What territory had two governments in 1856? | Kansas |
| Which fugitive slave from Virginia was arrested in Boston in 1854? | Anthony Burns |
| What Senator of South Carolina asked that the slave states be allowed “to separate and part in peace?’ | John C. Calhoun |
| What government body handed down the decision in the Dred Scott case? | Supreme Court |
| What was the name for the eruption of violence that destroyed a Kansas town? | Sack of Lawrence |
| Within a decade of its publication in 1862, what anti-slavery novel shocked the nation and had sold 2 million copies? | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Who won the presidential election of 1856? | James Buchanan |
| You are a slave who has run away from your plantation in Virginia and has sought refuge in New York. What law allows you to be arrested and brought back to your owner, even if you're in a free state? | Fugitive Slave Act |
| Who was the abolitionist who led an attack along the Pottawatomie Creek? | John Brown |
| Who was the Republican nominee for president in 1856? | John C. Fremont |
| The Confederate States of America formed their own constitution that gave citizens the right to do what? | own slaves |
| What policy gave American citizens the power to decide whether to allow slavery in the territories? | Freeport Doctrine |
| John is from Louisiana. He believes that northerners should mind their own business and allow southerners to have slaves. He doesn't care about what is best for the country as a whole, but what is best for the South. What is this an example of? | sectionalism |
| What Illinois senator wanted to run a railroad to the Pacific from Chicago? | Stephen Douglas |
| The debate over the growth of what issue influenced the election of 1852? | slavery |
| Referring to the Mexican Cession, what document stated that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of [the] territory?” | Wilmot Proviso |
| On March 7, 1850, what Senator of Massachusetts spoke in front of the Senate in favor of the Compromise of 1850? | Daniel Webster |
| A debate began throughout the nation after what slave sued for his freedom in 1846? | Dred Scott |
| What man beat a senator unconscious with a cane? | Preston Brooks |
| Proposed by Henry Clay, what compromise called for California to enter the Union as a free state, among other conditions? | Compromise of 1850 |
| Abraham Lincoln is said to have called what person the “little lady who made this big war?’ | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| The Republican Party nominated what man from Illinois for the U.S. Senate in 1858? | Abraham Lincoln |
| What was the first state to secede from the Union? | South Carolina |
| Who was the senator from Massachusetts who spoke out against the pro-slavery population of Kansas? | Charles Sumner |
| At what event did Abraham Lincoln argue with Stephen Douglas that the nation cannot be "half free and half slave?" | Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
| Who led the raid on Harper’s Ferry? | John Brown |
| If you believe that the Constitution should be the law of the land and not disobeyed, what political party would you be in? | Constitutional Union Party |
| The seceded states chose what man from Mississippi as the president of the Confederacy? | Jefferson Davis |
| What compromise made the practice of slavery illegal north of latitude 36°30'? | Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
| If you are against slavery spreading to the new western territories, what political party would you join? | Republican Party |
| What was the issue that made the Republican Party a “single-issue party?” | slavery |
| The candidate from which political party won the presidency in 1852? | Democratic |
| The Democratic Party named what man as their presidential nominee in 1852? | Franklin Pierce |
| Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1857? | Roger B. Taney |
| What event led many southern whites to feel that their way of life was threatened and the only solution was to secede from the Union? | John Brown's raid on the Harper's Ferry arsenal. |
| How did people in the South believe their lives would change if Lincoln ended slavery? | Their economy and way of life would be destroyed. |
| What states joined South Carolina to form the Confederate States of America? | Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas |
| What did Lincoln say in his inaugural address with regard to the seceding states? | He would keep all government property in the seceding states. |
| What was Lincoln's campaign promise regarding slavery | He would not abolish slavery where it already existed. |
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