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The only southern state that voted unanimously for secession from the Union
South Carolina
North Carolina
Texas
Alabama
2
The Republican Party was created by combining these two parties...
Southern Whigs/Democrats
Know Nothing/Free Soil
Free Soil/Northern Whigs
Southern Whigs/Democrats
3
Abraham Lincoln or Stephan Douglass-Said that the original founders meant for free/slave states
Douglass
Lincoln
4
Became the president-elect of the United States in 1860...
Bell
Douglas
Breckinridge
Lincoln
5
A new political party created in 1854 that was dedicated to stopping the spread of slavery
Republican
Whig
Democrat
Know Nothing
6
"Southern opinion is now the supreme law of the land" - This quote referred to...
the Dred-Scott decision
the Mason-Dixon Line
the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
7
The Fugitive Slave Act was a part of the Compromise of..
1850
1880
1810
1830
8
Abraham Lincoln or Stephan Douglass - Won the Illinois senatorial election of 1858
Lincoln
Douglass
9
The Kansas-Nebraska Act left the question of slavery up to...
congress
local residents
the house
the president
10
The president that upheld the Fugitive Slave Act in Boston and lost a lot of public support
Fillmore
Van Buren
Quincy Adams
Pierce
11
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by...
John Calhoun
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Eliza Harris
Charles Sumner
12
More of the upper mid-west population came from New York and New England
True
False
13
The first state legislature to consider leaving the Union
South Carolina
Louisiana
North Carolina
Georgia
14
The Lecompton Constitution was an anti-slavery draft that was eventually defeated by Congress
False
True
15
After Dred-Scott abolitionists "purchased" Scott and set him and his wife free...
False
True
16
Stephen Douglass wanted to split Nebraska up and wanted the areas to follow this approach
public sovereignty
democratic sovereignty
state sovereignty
popular sovereignty
17
The Chief Justice who used the Dred Scott case to fuel his own political gains..
Thaddeus Stevens
John Sherman
John Brown
Roger Taney
18
Abraham Lincoln or Stephan Douglass-supported the Dred Scott decision
Douglass
Lincoln
19
The famous speech favoring a free Kansas...
"Against Lecompton"
"Crime Against Kansas"
"These Things I Believe"
"The Perversion of the Constitution"
20
Abraham Lincoln or Stephan Douglass-did not support popular sovereignty
Lincoln
Douglass
21
Which abolitionist is being attacked by Congressman Preston Brooks in this political cartoon?
Samuel Jones
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
John Brown
22
The former slave that escaped from Virginia, lived in Boston, caught by slave hunters
Frederick Douglass
John Calhoun
Marge Garner
Anthony Burns
23
The Wilmot Proviso stated that slavery could not be allowed in
the North
Kansas
territory acquired from Great Britain
territory acquired from Mexico
24
What caused American wheat prices to fall sharply in 1856, leading to the Panic of 1857?
Bleeding Kansas
Harper's Ferry Raid
the end of the Crimean War
the end of the Seven Years War
