Question 1

Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 with a

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A)   thin majority of the popular vote.
B)   plurality of the popular vote.
C)   plurality of the Electoral College.
D)   overwhelming majority of the popular vote.

Question 2

The United States attempted to establish some control over a future canal across the isthmus of Central America by negotiating with

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A)   France.
B)   Spain.
C)   Great Britain.
D)   Germany.

Question 3

The Supreme Court ruled the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional in the ________ decision.

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A)   Dred Scott
B)   John Emerson
C)   Anthony Burns
D)   Frederick Douglass

Question 4

During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln

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A)   supported both political equality for blacks and the Dred Scott decision.
B)   portrayed Douglas as an opponent of the Dred Scott decision.
C)   opposed both slavery and social and political equality for blacks.
D)   supported repealing the Fugitive Slave Act.

Question 5

The Lecompton constitution was drafted by an antislavery convention in Kansas and was ultimately supported by the Kansas voters.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

In his "Freeport Doctrine" during the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Stephen Douglas called for the gradual emancipation of all slaves.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Senator ________ was beaten unconscious by a member of the House of Representatives after he gave his "The Crime Against Kansas" speech.

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A)   Charles Sumner
B)   Preston Brooks
C)   Stephen Douglas
D)   William Seward

Question 8

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas set out to make Lincoln look like a(n)

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A)   abolitionist.
B)   Free Soiler.
C)   eastern elitist.
D)   opportunist.

Question 9

After secession began in 1860, most Southerners feared that the North would forcibly resist secession.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Who was the "the Henry Clay of his generation," the man based his politics on expansion and popular sovereignty?

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A)   Stephen A. Douglas
B)   Abraham Lincoln
C)   Franklin Pierce
D)   James Buchanan

Question 11

Explain how the concept of popular sovereignty caused the tragedy of "bleeding Kansas." Summarize how the turmoil in Kansas affected the rest of the country.

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Question 12

In 1860, the Democratic party

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A)   held two conventions, but united and nominated Stephen Douglas for president.
B)   collapsed completely and was unable to nominate any presidential candidate.
C)   held two conventions and split into a northern and a southern faction.
D)   nominated and elected Abraham Lincoln as president.

Question 13

Stephen Douglas staunchly believed that the slavery question in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska should be resolved by

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A)   protecting slavery.
B)   the Supreme Court.
C)   banning slavery.
D)   popular sovereignty.

Question 14

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel that brought home the evils of slavery to many in the North was

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A)   Uncle Tom's Cabin.
B)   The Impending Crisis.
C)   Twelve Years a Slave.
D)   Below the Mason-Dixon Line.

Question 15

Explain how the Fugitive Slave Law and Uncle Tom's Cabin both increased sectional tensions in the 1850s.

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Question 16

What is the definition of the following key term:
-Crittenden Compromise :

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Question 17

The Ostend Manifesto was an American statement that America should buy or seize

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A)   Panama.
B)   Hawaii.
C)   Mexico.
D)   Cuba.

Question 18

John Brown's major goal in attacking Harpers Ferry was to

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A)   keep slavery out of Kansas.
B)   seize the federal arsenal and arm the slaves.
C)   cut communications between Washington and the South.
D)   punish the citizens for their support of slave catchers.

Question 19

In May 1856, ________ slaughtered five unarmed, proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in "bleeding Kansas."

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A)   John Brown
B)   Charles Sumner
C)   William Lloyd Garrison
D)   Preston Brooks

Question 20

Buchanan's reaction to the Lecompton constitution was to

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A)   support it because it provided for the gradual emancipation of slaves in Kansas.
B)   support it as a perfect example of popular sovereignty.
C)   refuse to submit it to Congress because it permitted slavery.
D)   support it despite the fraud perpetrated by the proslavery faction.

Exam 13: The Coming of the Civil War

In 1860, the Democratic party

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Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 with a

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