Test 5.12.15

Question 1

The Willmot Proviso, if adopted would have

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Prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico

Question 2

According to popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in territories would be determined by

Answer 2

The vote of the people

Question 3

Free spoilers condemned slavery because

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It destroyed chances of free white workers to rise to self employment

Question 4

By 1850 the south

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Was relatively well off politically and economically

Question 5

Harriet Tubman

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By helping slaves escape to Canada

Question 6

In his seventh of March speech Daniel Webster

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Called for a new more stringent fugitive slave law

Question 7

In the compromise of 1850 slavery in New Mexico and Utah was decided by

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Popular sovereignty

Question 8

The most alarming aspect of the compromise of 1850 to northerners

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Fugitive slave law

Question 9

Many northern states passed personal liberty laws in response to

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Runaway slaves

Question 10

Regarding the compromise of 1850 the south made a tactical blunder by demanding

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Strong fugitive slave law

Question 11

The United States scheme to gain control of Cuba was stopped when

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Northern free soilers fiercely protested the effort

Question 12

Most American leaders believed that the only way to keep the new pacific coast territories from breaking away was to

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To construct a transcontinental railroad

Question 13

Senator Steven Douglas proposed the idea of slavery in the Kansas Nebraska territory be decided by

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Popular sovereignty

Question 14

The U.S. victory in the Mexican war resulted in

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All of the above

Question 15

One of senator Douglass mistakes in proposing the Kansas Nebraska act was

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Underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery

Question 16

Uncle toms cabin may be described as

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A powerful political force

Question 17

Lecompten constitution

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Pro slavery

Question 18

New England immigrant aid society

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anti slavery free soilers

Question 19

The Lecompetn Constitution proposed that Kansas

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Would have black bondage regardless whether the document was approved or not

Question 20

The clash between Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed

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The fact that passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed

Question 21

The central plank of the no nothing party in the 1856 election was

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Nativism

Question 22

What did northerners hate about the Dred Scott decision

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Congress did not have any power to prohibit so slavery I any territory

Question 23

As a result of the panic of 1857 the south

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Believed that Chiron was king

Question 24

Stephen Douglas argued in his free port doctrine

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That territorial legislatures could keep slavery out of the territories

Question 25

After John Brown’s raid on Harper’s fairy the south concluded that

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The north was dominated by Brown living republicans

Question 26

When Lincoln won the 1860 election people in south Carolina

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Rejoiced because it gave them excuse to succeed

Question 27

Lame duck president believed that the constitution didn’t authorize

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His power to force states not to succeed

Question 28

Lincoln opposed the Crittenden compromise because

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The compromise could allow slavery to expand into Latin America

Question 29

Secessionist supported leaving the union because

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All of the above

Question 30

Immense debt owed to northern creditors by the south was

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Repuiated by the south