Chapter 12-13 Multiple Choice Exam Questions Flashcards
The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad was
Harriet Tubman
Most Free-Soilers opposed the spread of slavery because it
would take jobs from free men
The Wilmot Proviso sought to
ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
Although some rail lines were built in the South in the 1840s, southerners at mid-century still relied mainly on
steamboats
Most Germans who immigrated to America in the mid-1800s were
farmers
The Oneida Association was an example of a
utopian society
The first national convention for women’s rights was held at
Seneca Falls, New York
The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was
Harriet Beecher Stowe
According to the principle of popular sovereignty
settlers would determine whether a territory would have slavery
The Wilmot Proviso, which never passed, would have
prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico
The Know-Nothings were
anti-Catholic and nativist
For most Southerners, John Brown’s raid offered proof that
Northerners plotted to murder slaveholders
After passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, many Northerners headed to Kansas to
create an antislavery majority
The Kansas-Nebraska Act further inflamed sectional tensions because it
undid the Missouri Compromise
John Brown’s intention in raiding the arsenal at Harpers Ferry was to arm
enslaved people and begin an insurrection against slaveholders
In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled as unconstitutional part of the
Missouri Compromise
The crisis that led to the Compromise of 1850 was
California’s request to join the Union as a free state
The thorny issue raised by California’s request to be admitted to the Union was
what to do about the expansion of slavery
The most problematic aspect of the Compromise of 1850 was
the Fugitive Slave Act
The political party formed in the mid-1800s to support “native Americans” in preference to newcomers was the
“Know-Nothing” Party
The Kansas-Nebraska Act did which of the following?
Invalidate the Missouri Compromise and establish the concept of “popular sovereignty” (b and c)
The controversy over Kansas suggested that popular sovereignty
could easily lead to civil war within a territory
In 1856, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina almost beat to death Senator ____ of Massachusetts.
Charles Sumner
John Brown led the killings of five men at Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas because he
wanted to retaliate against the “sack of Lawrence”
