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The Gadsden Purchase was intended to
a) balance the division of territory between free states and slave states.
b) expand slavery westward.
c) balance the amount of territory included in Kansas and Nebraska.
d) create a route for the transcontinental railroad from New Orleans.

The American Party won many seats in Congress in 1854 by opposing
a) slavery.
b) immigration.
c) the Missouri Compromise.
d) statehood for Kansas.

During his inaugural address, James Buchanan suggested that the question of slavery in the territories should be decided by
a) the people who lived there.
b) Congress.
c) a nationwide vote.
d) the Supreme Court.

A divisive issue that eventually contributed to the Civil War was whether to allow
a) slavery to expand into the western territories.
b) slavery to expand into the North.
c) enslaved Africans to become citizens of the United States.
d) the continued capturing and transporting of Africans to the United States.

The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin
a) aroused antislavery sentiment in the North.
b) justified slavery by depicting African Americans as being happy in enslavement.
c) justified slavery by depicting African Americans as heretics.
d) led to better treatment of enslaved African Americans in the South.

Stephen A. Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in order to
a) settle territory along the proposed route of the transcontinental railroad.
b) appease leaders of the “free soil” movement.
c) make it possible to farm large quantities of cotton in the Great Plains.
d) provide a compromise that would avoid civil war.

Who asked the U.S. Supreme Court to declare him a free man, arguing that the time he had spent in free territory had ended his enslavement?
a) John Sanford
b) Roger B. Taney
c) Dred Scott
d) Frederick Douglass

The Kansas-Nebraska Act enraged many people who opposed the extension of slavery because it repealed the
a) Lecompton Constitution.
b) Missouri Compromise.
c) Freeport Doctrine.
d) Fugitive Slave Act.

Which of the following states remained with the Union?
a) North Carolina.
b) Tennessee.
c) Arkansas.
d) Missouri.

What was the name for the idea that the citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves whether they wanted to permit slavery?
a) Crittenden’s Compromise
b) popular sovereignty
c) Lecompton referendum
d) nullification doctrine

The Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case
a) outlawed slavery in the territories.
b) ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
c) settled the slavery issue.
d) freed an enslaved man.

The Whig Party and American Party both dissolved because
a) Northern and Southern members split over the slavery issue.
b) members disagreed sharply over their party’s presidential nominee.
c) members polarized over the Dred Scott decision.
d) Northeastern and Western members split over popular sovereignty.

In the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay grouped his resolutions in pairs so that
a) members of Congress could then vote on each pair separately from the others.
b) each pair could comprise a bill.
c) the pairings made the large proposal easier for all to understand.
d) each pair offered concessions to both sides.

The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad was
a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
b) Harriet Tubman.
c) Frederick Douglass.
d) Simon Legree.

The convention of the Confederate states drafted a constitution containing a provision that
a) guaranteed slavery in their territory.
b) declared the formation of a federal union.
c) imposed a protective tariff on textiles.
d) limited the presidency to two terms.

n 1849 thousands of people came to California because
a) it was a free state
b) it offered cheap land.
c) gold had been discovered there.
d) it was a slave state.

The Lecompton Constitution
a) was proslavery.
b) gave voting rights to women.
c) was approved by Congress.
d) was supported by Stephen Douglas.

When delegates at the Republicans’ Chicago convention in 1860 became convinced that their first choice, William Seward, might not have wide appeal in the North, the party turned to
a) Abraham Lincoln.
b) Jefferson Davis.
c) John J. Crittenden.
d) Stephen Douglas.

The dissolution of the Union began in ____________________, where anti-Northern secessionist sentiment had long been intense:
a) Georgia.
b) Kansas.
c) Kentucky.
d) South Carolina.

President Lincoln’s declaration that the Union would hold on to federal property in the Southern states clearly referred to
a) Fort Pickens.
b) Fort Sumter.
c) Harpers Ferry
d) Washington, D.C.

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