CH 13 QUIZ 2

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced to settle the slavery issue in the territories strengthen the provisions of the Missouri

Compromise insure that the transcontinental railroad

would benefit Illinois satisfy the demands of abolitionists in

the North

insure that the transcontinental railroad would benefit Illinois

What party became the real successor to the Whig party? Know-Nothing party Republican Party Free Soil party Constitutional Union Party

Republican Party

Proslavery forces were responsible for the Secret Six conspiracy raid on Harpers Ferry Pottawatomie Massacre sack of Lawrence

sack of Lawrence

What was the basic position of the Freeport Doctrine? Territories have the right to choose

whether slavery will be allowed Territories can prohibit slavery by

refusing to adopt laws that establish it Slaves do not have any rights as citizens Congress cannot forbid slavery in the

territories

Territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws that establish it

According to Lincoln, what was at the heart of his debate with Douglas? The rights of states the immorality of slavery the social and political equality of blacks the need to preserve the Union

the immorality of slavery

A) John Brown B) James Buchanan C) Stephen A. Douglas D) John C. Fremont E) Roger Taney

___ Illinois Senator who scrapped the Missouri Compromise to benefit his state

C) Stephen A. Douglas

A) John Brown B) James Buchanan C) Stephen A. Douglas D) John C. Fremont E) Roger Taney

___ war hero and the first Republican candidate for president

D) John C. Fremont

A) John Brown B) James Buchanan C) Stephen A. Douglas D) John C. Fremont E) Roger Taney

___ last Democratic, pro-compromise president (1857-61) before the Civil War

B) James Buchanan

A) John Brown B) James Buchanan C) Stephen A. Douglas D) John C. Fremont E) Roger Taney

___ fanatical antislavery terrorist

A) John Brown

A) John Brown B) James Buchanan C) Stephen A. Douglas D) John C. Fremont E) Roger Taney

___ Supreme Court chief justice who denied that blacks had the rights of citizenship

E) Roger Taney

A) Andrew Brooks B) fire-eater C) Know-Nothing D) Republican E) Dred Scott

___ Southerner who attacked a Northerner in the Senate chamber

A) Andrew Brooks

A) Andrew Brooks B) fire-eater C) Know-Nothing D) Republican E) Dred Scott

___ former slave who was denied any rights as a citizen

E) Dred Scott

A) Andrew Brooks B) fire-eater C) Know-Nothing D) Republican E) Dred Scott

___ radical Southerner

B) fire-eater

A) Andrew Brooks B) fire-eater C) Know-Nothing D) Republican E) Dred Scott

___ anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic

C) Know-Nothing

A) Andrew Brooks B) fire-eater C) Know-Nothing D) Republican E) Dred Scott

___ antislavery, pro-business

D) Republican

True/False ___ by 1860 nearly half of all white

Southerners owned slaves

False

True/False ___ Abolitionists were primarily

responsible for the violence in “Bleeding Kansas”

False

True/False ___ Chief Justice Taney claimed the

Constitution recognized free blacks as citizens

False

True/False ___ Buchanan tried to start a war with

the Mormon settlers in Utah

True

True/False ___ Abraham Lincoln believed Congress

should abolish slavery in the South

False