Chapter 11 test

Question 1

Texas

Answer 1

Admitted as a slave state in 1845, thereby renewing the Congressional debate over the expansion of slavery

Question 2

The doctrine of popular sovereignty argued that

Answer 2

Citizens of new territories could decide the slavery issue

Question 3

Free Soil Party

Answer 3

Formed in 1848 by antislavery Democrats and Whigs to halt the expansion of slavery into the territories

Question 4

The Democrats lost the 1848 presidential election because

Answer 4

The Free Soil Party divided the Democratic vote

Question 5

Henry Clay

Answer 5

Congressmen who proposed the Compromise of 1850

Question 6

The three following things were reactions to Clay’s compromise

Answer 6

1. Many northern members of Congress denied that the Constitution protected slavery
2. John C. Calhoun warned that civil war would result if the North didn’t permit slavery to exist
3. President Zachary Taylor opposed Clay’s compromise

Question 7

California

Answer 7

Admitted as a free state as a part of the Compromise of 1850

Question 8

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 8

Strengthened antislavery sentiment in the North due to strict enforcement

Question 9

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 9

Repealed the Missouri Compromise and replaced it with the doctrine of popular sovereignty in newly organized territories

Question 10

As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 10

Some antislavery forces reacted by helping antislavery families move to Kansas

Question 11

Kansas

Answer 11

Territory that elected two governments- one proslavery and one antislavery- during the mid 1850s

Question 12

The Republican Party was formed by

Answer 12

Antislavery Whigs and Democrats, plus Free -Soldiers

Question 13

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 13

Ruled that slavery could not be banned in territories

Question 14

The Dred Scott decision led abolitionists to

Answer 14

Fear that slavery would expand into the territories

Question 15

Freeport Doctrine

Answer 15

Maintained that people in a territory could exclude slavery by refusing to pass the laws necessary to support slavery

Question 16

The following three things resulted from the Lincoln Douglas debates

Answer 16

1. Douglas lost support amount southern slaveholders
2. Douglas won the race for U.S. Senate
3. The debates hurt Douglas’s chances of ever becoming president

Question 17

John Brown

Answer 17

Abolitionist who led a raid on Haper’s Ferry

Question 18

Reactions John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry

Answer 18

1. Abolitionist hailed Brown a hero
2. Many southern whites thought Brown’s sentence was justified
3. Southern secessionists thought the hysteria helped their cause

Question 19

The first to secede from the Union was

Answer 19

South Carolina