Pre-Civil War TEST

The Wilmot Proviso said that slavery

Chief Justice Roger Taney claimed that the Constitution recognized free blacks as citizens.

According to Lincoln, what was at the heart of this debate with Douglas?

What event was most responsible for the Lower South seceding?

Which of the following was probably the most effective tool for abolition?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was largely responsible for the virtual civil war in "Bleeding Kansas".

Which of the items below was the EARLIEST controversy in the steady slide toward civil war?

The South resisted the admmission of California as a stte because Southerners

Which was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

Which provision of the Compromise of 1850 was most responsibile for worsening tensions between the North and the South?

Which was most responsible for the rapid settlement of Americans in California?

What political party arose as a coalition of conservative Southerners and Northerners?

What party became the real successor of the Whig Party?

What were forty-niners?

According to Daniel Webster, why was the debate over slavery in the new territories needless?

Stephen A. Douglas opposed a proslavery constitution in Kansas becuase it was against the will of the majority.

As a presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln advocated the abolition of slavery in the South.

Which of the following men was an abolitionist?

What factor was probably most responsible for Lincoln's election to the presidency?

Popular sovereignty said that slavery

Which of the following was NOT a standard Republican position?

Which of the following was NOT passed by Congress?