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1
Who was elected President in 1860 & what was his political party?
John C. Fremont, Republican
Abraham Lincoln, Republican
Stephen Douglas, Northern Democrat
Jefferson Davis, Democrat
2
What term means to formally leave a political union?
Secession
Ratification
Sectionalism
Emancipation
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What did the term popular sovereignty mean to the settlers of the west?
Allowing the people to take away native lands.
Allowing the people to live where they wanted.
Allowing the most popular settler to rule.
Allowing the people to decide whether to be a free or slave state.
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Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act overturn the Missouri Compromise?
It pushed the Native Americans of their land.
It forbid slavery north of the 36°30' line.
It added Nebraska and Kansas as free states.
It would allow slavery north of the 36°30' line.
5
What does this map from the election of 1856 demonstrate?
Increasing nationalism
Westward Expansion
Millard Fillmore's popularity
Increasing sectionalism
6
Who would attend the meeting depicted in this poster?
A Northerner
A Southerner
An Abolitionist
A Democrat
7
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852?
Angelina Grimke
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
8
What was the name of the escaped slave from Maryland who became a famous abolitionist & speaker?
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Nate Turner
William Lloyd Garrison
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What do the striped states represent?
Free border states that joined the Confederacy.
Border states that never decided which side to join.
Border states that stayed neutral during the war.
Border states that had slavery but stayed in the Union.
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Who was the fiery abolitionist who was executed for his plan to lead a slave rebellion in Harpers Ferry?
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
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What was the country created by the seceding states called and who was chosen to be its president?
The Democratic States of America; Stephen Douglas
The Confederate States of America; Jefferson Davis
The Slave Republic; Robert E. Lee
The Southern States of America; Alexander Stevens
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What plan admitted California as a free state and called for a strict new fugitive slave law?
The Compromise of 1850
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The California Compromise
The Wilmot Proviso
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Why did the Missouri Compromise admit Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state?
They both begin with the letter "M."
To satisfy people who lived in those states
To keep the balance of power between free and slave states.
To make sure that the Louisiana territory would be open to slavery.
14
What did the Supreme Court decide in Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Black Americans were not citizens; could not sue in court
All of the above
Slavery could not be banned in any state.
Dred Scott was the property of his owner.
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What happened after pro- and anti-slavery groups rushed into Kansas in 1856?
They agreed to compromise and made the capital Lecompton.
The pro-slavery group won and the anti-slavery group left Kansas.
Violence erupted in "Bleeding Kansas" and hundreds died.
They elected John Brown to be governor of Kansas
