CH 13 Quiz 2

1. CH 13 Quiz 2

2. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced to • settle the slavery issue in the territories • strengthen the provisions of the Missouri Compromise • insure that the transcontinental railroad would benefit Illinois • satisfy the demands of abolitionists in the North

3. insure that the transcontinental railroad would benefit Illinois

4. What party became the real successor to the Whig party? • Know-Nothing party • Republican Party • Free Soil party • Constitutional Union Party

5. Republican Party

6. Proslavery forces were responsible for the • Secret Six conspiracy • raid on Harpers Ferry • Pottawatomie Massacre • sack of Lawrence

7. sack of Lawrence

8. What was the basic position of the Freeport Doctrine? • Territories have the right to choose whether slavery will be allowed • Territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws that establish it • Slaves do not have any rights as citizens • Congress cannot forbid slavery in the territories

9. Territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws that establish it

10. According to Lincoln, what was at the heart of his debate with Douglas? • The rights of states • the immorality of slavery • the social and political equality of blacks • the need to preserve the Union

11. the immorality of slavery

12. A) John Brown • B) James Buchanan • C) Stephen A. Douglas • D) John C. Fremont • E) Roger Taney • ___ Illinois Senator who scrapped the Missouri Compromise to benefit his state

13. C) Stephen A. Douglas

14. A) John Brown • B) James Buchanan • C) Stephen A. Douglas • D) John C. Fremont • E) Roger Taney • ___ war hero and the first Republican candidate for president

15. D) John C. Fremont

16. A) John Brown • B) James Buchanan • C) Stephen A. Douglas • D) John C. Fremont • E) Roger Taney • ___ last Democratic, pro-compromise president (1857-61) before the Civil War

17. B) James Buchanan

18. A) John Brown • B) James Buchanan • C) Stephen A. Douglas • D) John C. Fremont • E) Roger Taney • ___ fanatical antislavery terrorist

19. A) John Brown

20. A) John Brown • B) James Buchanan • C) Stephen A. Douglas • D) John C. Fremont • E) Roger Taney • ___ Supreme Court chief justice who denied that blacks had the rights of citizenship

21. E) Roger Taney

22. A) Andrew Brooks • B) fire-eater • C) Know-Nothing • D) Republican • E) Dred Scott • ___ Southerner who attacked a Northerner in the Senate chamber

23. A) Andrew Brooks

24. A) Andrew Brooks • B) fire-eater • C) Know-Nothing • D) Republican • E) Dred Scott • ___ former slave who was denied any rights as a citizen

25. E) Dred Scott

26. A) Andrew Brooks • B) fire-eater • C) Know-Nothing • D) Republican • E) Dred Scott • ___ radical Southerner

27. B) fire-eater

28. A) Andrew Brooks • B) fire-eater • C) Know-Nothing • D) Republican • E) Dred Scott • ___ anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic

29. C) Know-Nothing

30. A) Andrew Brooks • B) fire-eater • C) Know-Nothing • D) Republican • E) Dred Scott • ___ antislavery, pro-business

31. D) Republican

32. True/False • ___ by 1860 nearly half of all white Southerners owned slaves

33. False

34. True/False • ___ Abolitionists were primarily responsible for the violence in “Bleeding Kansas”

35. False

36. True/False • ___ Chief Justice Taney claimed the Constitution recognized free blacks as citizens

37. False

38. True/False • ___ Buchanan tried to start a war with the Mormon settlers in Utah

39. True

40. True/False • ___ Abraham Lincoln believed Congress should abolish slavery in the South

41. False