History Chapter 12 Questions And Answers – Flashcards
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In the 1850s, many free blacks and fugitive slaves sought freedom in
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- Canada
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In an intriguing race for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was opposed by
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- Stephen A. Douglas
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The declared president of the confederate states was
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- Jefferson Davis
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Zachary Taylor's views on slavery outraged many in the
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- South
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President Pierce tried to mute the conflicts about slavery by emphasizing
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- an aggressive foreign policy
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In the 1858 senatorial campaign in Illinois
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- none of the above
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Members of Young America supported
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- extending American influence throughout the America
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The Wilmot Proviso proposed that
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- free labor should exist in the territory gained in the Mexican war
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in his first inaugural address in March, 1861, president Lincoln
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- promised to enforce federal law in all the states
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The election of 1860 revealed that
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- Americans voted very strongly along sectional lines
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In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the supreme court declared that
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- slaves were property, not people living in the united states
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within 3 months after the election of 1860
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- 7 southern states had left the union
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the election of 1852
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- was won by a northern democrat
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the republicans became the clear favorite in the presidential election of 1860 when
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- the democratic party split into sectional factions
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Mississippi's 1861 declaration of secession accused the anti-slavery interest of each of the following EXCEPT
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- preparing to send armies to conquer the slave states
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American party was commonly referred to as the
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- the "Party of the Whiners"
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Shadrach Minkin's story revolves around the issue of the
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- Fugitive Slave Act
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What effect did the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin have on many northern white people
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it moved them to active participation in the debate and the end of slavery
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The republican party's first candidate in a presidential election was
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- John C. Fremont
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Northerns of all parties were outraged by the Kansas-Nebraska Act because it
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- was viewed as a plot to extend slavery above the Missouri Compromise line
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In January of 1848, gold was discovered in
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- California
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John Brown hoped that his raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia would
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- start a slave rebellion in the state of Virginia
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Which event happened last?
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- Virginia secedes from the Union
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In what year were the Know-nothing and Republican parties formed?
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- 1854
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What is the correct order of events
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- Dred Scott decision, John Brown's raid, election of 1860
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Nativists were
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native-born Americans who believed themselves to be superior to the foreign born
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Who ran for president in 1860
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- all of the above
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Abraham Lincoln earned the republican nomination for presidency by replacing the more controversial
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- William Seward
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In the 1860 election, who received the second highest popular vote count, yet the lowest number of electoral votes?
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- Stephen Douglas
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The confederacy fired shots at Fort Sumter when Jefferson Davis discovered that
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- president Lincoln ordered that food be sent to the fort
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Proponents of popular sovereignty believed that
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- residents of a territory should decide the issue of slavery
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the first state to choose secession was
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- South Carolina
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the influential novel uncle tom's cabin was written by
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- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Which event happened first?
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- the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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the Confederates taking of Fort Sumter was led by
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- P.G.T. Beauregard
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results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act include
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- a bloody civil conflict between proslavery and antislavery forces in Kansas
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when Shadrach Minkins was apprehended by federal authorities as a fugitive slave, abolitionists opted to
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- invade a courtroom, abduct Minkins, and conduct him to Canada where he would be
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The Compromise of 1850 established which of the following statutes
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- all of the above
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the confederates attacked Fort Sumter in
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- 1861
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Under the Compromise of 1850, which of the following would be able to choose whether to be a free or a slave state
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- Utah Territory
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The greatest significance of California's desire to enter the Union was
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- the concern of Southerners that it would upset the balance of free and slave states
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Anti-immigrant, anti-catholic sentiment gave rise to this party,
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- the American party
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who was an antislavery agitator in the middle of the violent confrontation in Kansas?
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- John Brown
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Which event happened after the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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the caning of Charles Sumner
