CH. 14 U.S. History – Flashcards
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What effect did John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry have on the South?
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C. It indicated that abolitionists would use violence to overthrow slavery.
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How did the Mexican-American War affect American politics?
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B. It divided the nation based on the issue of slavery in the territories.
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What did the Wilmot Proviso of 1846 propose?
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D. Slavery would be prohibited throughout the entire area ceded by Mexico.
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Who supported the Wilmot Proviso?
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A. Northerners who wanted to reserve new lands for white settlers
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Which issue in the debate of 1849-50 led to the Compromise of 1850?
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A. The balance of power between the North and the South in Congress
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How did American politics change in the aftermath of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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D. The Whig party disintegrated.
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What common thread wove together northern men to form the Republican party in 1854?
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D. The opposition to the extension of slavery into any territory of the United States
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Early in the struggle to win Kansas, proslavery supporters
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A. invaded Kansas to control the election through fraud and intimidation.
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What was the result of Preston Brooks's caning of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner in 1856?
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B. It further inflamed sectional passions over the institution of slavery.
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What did the Supreme Court rule in its 1857 Dred Scott decision?
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A. Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States.
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What did Abraham Lincoln personally believe about slavery?
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C. It was morally wrong.
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What happened when Democrats met to choose a presidential candidate in Charleston, South Carolina?
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B. They divided into southern and northern factions.
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Which southerner argued that "I consider slavery much more secure in the Union than out of it"?
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D. Alexander Stephens
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Which was the first state to secede from the Union after Lincoln's election?
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C. South Carolina
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Who became the president of the new Confederate States of America?
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C. Jefferson Davis
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Why did the slave states of the Upper South initially reject secession?
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D. They did not have as great a stake in slavery as the states in the Lower South.
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How did James Buchanan respond as the secession crisis loomed over the final weeks of his presidential administration?
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B. He remained in Washington and did nothing.
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In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln
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A. reassured the South that he had no right to interfere with slavery where it existed.
