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Question 1

25. Stephen Douglas’ motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to ________.

Answer 1

A. Boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad

Question 2

26. Which of the following is an example of the political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 2

B. The Whig Party collapsed, and many disgruntled northerners joined the new Republican Party

Question 3

27. What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?

Answer 3

D. its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants

Question 4

28. In 1854, the Know-Nothings won all the congressional races as well as the governorship in _________.

Answer 4

C. Massachusetts

Question 5

29. The Republican free labor ideology ______.

Answer 5

D. led to the argument by Abraham Lincoln and William Seward that free labor and slave labor were essentially incompatible

Question 6

30. The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks _____________.

Answer 6

A. actually helped the new Republican Party

Question 7

31. The Republican Party founded in the 1850s strongly endorsed the same policy about slavery in the territories that _______ had begun advocating in 1846.

Answer 7

A. David Wilmot

Question 8

32. Who was the Republican presidential candidate in 1856?

Answer 8

C. John Frémont

Question 9

33. The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ________.

Answer 9

A. declared Congress could not ban slavery from territories

Question 10

34. On matters related to citizenship, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that _______.

Answer 10

D. only white persons could be U.S. citizens

Question 11

35. The Lecompton Constitution was the ________.

Answer 11

B. proslavery constitution proposed for Kansas

Question 12

36. The famous Lincoln-Douglas debated took place during he campaign for _____.

Answer 12

D. U.S. senator from Illinois in 1858.

Question 13

37. During his debated with Abraham Lincoln in Freeport, Illinois, Stephen Douglas ________.

Answer 13

C. insisted that popular sovereignty was compatible with the Dred Scot decision

Question 14

38. Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas that led to the rain on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?

Answer 14

D. John Brown

Question 15

39. What 1854 document called for the United States to seize Cuba?

Answer 15

B. the Ostend Manifesto

Question 16

40. In the 1850s, Tennessee-born William Walker became famous for ______.

Answer 16

C. seeking to establish himself as a ruler of a slaveholding Nicaragua

Question 17

41. The Democratic Party split in 1860 over the question of whether to _______.

Answer 17

B. protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty there

Question 18

42. In the 1860 election, how many different presidential candidates won electoral votes?

Answer 18

C. four

Question 19

43. In the presidential election of 1860, who were the two candidates who received the most votes in the southern states?

Answer 19

A. John Breckinridge and John Bell

Question 20

45. In 1860, which state became the first to pass an ordinance of secession and declare itself separated from the Union?

Answer 20

C. South Carolina

Question 21

46. During the secession winter of 1860-1861, who offered the most widely supported compromise from the Union?

Answer 21

B. John Crittenden

Question 22

47.The American Civil War begain in April 1861, when _______.

Answer 22

A. Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter

Question 23

48. Among the Confederacy’s advantages during the Civil War was _____.

Answer 23

B. its large size, which made it more difficult for the Union to conquer