Chapter 14 Quiz Questions Flashcards
As a novel with social power, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin succeeded because it
presented real characters and not just abstract arguments.
Stephen Douglas supported all of the following ideas except
immediatism.
The Compromise of 1850 established all of the following statutes except
admission of New Mexico as a slave state.
Northerners of all parties were outraged by the Kansas-Nebraska Act because it
was viewed as a plot to extend slavery above the Missouri Compromise line.
Reaction against the Fugitive Slave Act was strongest among
northern blacks.
The election of 1860 revealed that
Americans voted very strongly along sectional lines.
Effects of the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter included all of the following except
Arkansas and Tennessee refused to secede from the Union.
John Brown hoped that his raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, would
start a slave rebellion in the state of Virginia.
Who was an antislavery agitator in the middle of the violent confrontation in Kansas?
John Brown
Which group was the only one favored by members of the Know-Nothing Party?
English-Americans
In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that
blacks were not citizens of the United States.
The declared president of the Confederate States was
Jefferson Davis.
In January of 1848, gold was discovered in
California
President Lincoln’s strategy regarding secession focused on
keeping states of the Upper South in the Union.
The Republicans became the clear favorite in the presidential election of 1860 when
the Democratic Party split into sectional factions.
