Chapter 15 Quiz

A  He urged the Supreme Court to rule on secession before Lincoln took office.

B  He denied that the southern states had the right to secede from the Union, but did nothing to stop it.

C  He prodded Congress to beef up the military in case there was a war.

D  He called several ineffective special sessions of Congress.

A  were a labor union that protested accusations that they knew nothing about politics

B  were also known as the Peace and Freedom Party

C  were a group of southerns who formed a secret society that condemned slavery

D  were a group of American born Protestant natives who opposed the expansion of slavery and protested the immigration of Catholics

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  weakness of the Democratic party in the South.

B  strength of the new Republican party.

C  indifference of southern voters.

D  fundamental flaws in the electoral college system.

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  Southerners who had concluded that slavery could not flourish in the West

B  Northerners who wanted to reserve new lands for white settlers

C  Southerners who could not afford to relocate their plantations to the West

D  Northerners and southerners who were morally opposed to slavery

A  showed his enthusiastic support of slavery

B  might allow slavery in Kansas and Nebraska

C  strengthened his presidential prospects

D  strengthened the Missouri Compromise

A  He represented the crucial state of Illinois.

B  He was good friends with powerful Democrats.

C  He supported high tariffs.

D  His extreme racial views appealed to antislavery southerners.

A  extended the 36/30 line (Missouri Compromise) line all the way to the Pacific Coast

B  freed Dred and Harriet Scott from slavery because they had lived in a free territory

C  declared Congress could not ban slavery from the territories because slaves are personal property, thus protected by the U.S. Constitution

D  endorsed the free soil policy of the Republicans

A  They took comfort in knowing no slave flocked to Brown’s case.

B  They took comfort in knowing the federal government defended slavery.

C  They took comfort in knowing the federal government defended slavery. They took comfort in knowing no slave flocked to Brown’s case. They took comfort in knowing that slaveholders and non-slaveholders united to fight of the invaders.

D  They took comfort in knowing that slaveholders and non-slaveholders united to fight of the invaders.

A  divide the unorganized western territory into Nebraska and Kansas

B  proclaim slavery issues needed to be decided by popular sovereignty

C  repeal the Missouri Compromise

D  provide federal funds for a transcontinental railroad to run through Kansas

A  Texas was under constant attack from Mexico and the United States needed to make a provision to protect the Texas border

B  Texas desired to be annexed into the Union as a slave state

C  the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico needed to be settled

D  the US government wanted to control and profit from the distribution of land in Texas

A  New Mexico

B  Utah

C  California

D  Arizona

A  It precipitated the resignation of Supreme Court justices from the North.

B  It lent credence to the belief in the North that a slave power conspiracy existed.

C  It strengthened the Democratic party by unifying its northern and southern branches.

D  It indicated that the issue of slavery could be determined in any territory long before the moment of statehood.

A  got no support from the presidential administration of Millard Fillmore.

B  invaded Kansas to control the election through fraud and intimidation.

C  saw that the cause was lost and retreated from the contest.

D  initiated the first orderly implementation of popular sovereignty.

A  Whether or not the nation should engage in a civil war

B  The balance of power between the North and the South in Congress

C  Whether or not Congress should raise taxes on imports

D  Stricter interstate commerce regulations

A  he needed southern support to pass his legislation.

B  he had never supported the Missouri Compromise in the first place.

C  he pocketed bribes from southern legislators in return for supporting their causes.

D  he did not think the plan would cause controversy.

A  did not want to compete with slave labor and proposed a ban on slavery in Calfornia

B  established their own republic and independently governed themselves until 1852

C  liked the idea of introducing slaves into the mine fields to ease their own workloads

D  did not have an issue with slavery because slave owners were not bringing slaves to California

A  Delegates nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency

B  Southern delegates walked out

C  Northern delegates walked out

D  Delegates nominated Jefferson Davis for the presidency

A  He was tried, convicted, and executed.

B  He escaped to Massachusetts.

C  He was deported to Canada.

D  He was pardoned by the Republican governor.