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12/07/2008
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The ______________ proposed that Congress forbid slavery in territory acquired through the Mexican-American War.
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Wilmot Proviso
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In the presidential election of 1848, the ______________ dealt with the issue of slavery by refusing to adopt a party platform.
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Whigs
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______________ believed that his Omnibus Bill would pass because most congressmen wanted to compromise on the issue of slavery.
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Henery Clay
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Northerners were most offended by the Fugitive Slave Act that emerged from the ______________.
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Compromise of 1850
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel ______________ was America's first literary blockbuster.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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______________, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1852, was a Northerner with Southern sympathies.
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Franklin Pierce
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Prior to the 1850s, the party system forced ______________ to compromise between their northern and southern wings in order to achieve national strength.
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Whigs and Democrats
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The Know-Nothing Party was organized by ______________ in the early 1850s.
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Nativist
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In the 1856 presidential election, Republicans adopted a platform that focused on keeping slavery out of the territories and nominated ______________ for president.
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John C. Frémont
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______________ dissenting opinion in the Dred Scott decision argued that Congress had the power to legislate for the territories.
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Benjamin R. Curtis's
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______________ believed that free blacks should be made to leave the country because whites would never give them full civil and political rights.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Stephen A. Douglas's ______________ claimed that settlers in the territories could effectively ban slavery by not passing laws to protect it.
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Freeport Doctorine
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When the ______________ won the presidential election of 1860, many Southerners concluded that the balance of national power had shifted permanently and that they could not remain within the Union.
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Republican
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Most Northerners did not condone ______________ raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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John Brown's
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Mississippian ______________ became president of the Confederate States of America in 1861.
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Jefferson Davis
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When the war with Mexico ended in 1848, Congress had
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not resolved the status of slavery in the territories that the United States gained.
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Some Northerners were opposed to the extension of slavery into the land gained from the war with Mexico because they
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were hostile to African Americans and wanted to reserve new lands for whites.
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In the debate over the Wilmot Proviso, John C. Calhoun contended that Congress did not have the authority to ban slavery in the territories because
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Congress could not deprive any state of equal rights in the nation's territories.
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The most attractive feature of Lewis Cass's doctrine of popular sovereignty was that it
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was ambiguous about the moment at which the fate of slavery would be decided.
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The issue that undermined the Compromise of 1850 was
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runaway slaves in New England.
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Starting in the 1830s, northern states had started to provide fugitive slaves with protection from their owners by means of
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personal liberty laws.
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allowed the seizure of alleged slaves after a slaveholder or his agent
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appeared before an appointed commissioner and swore the slave was his.
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A significant number of Northerners turned against slavery in the 1850s because of
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a popular novel.
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The most crucial result of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act was that it
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realigned the nation's two major political parties.
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The new political party system of the 1850s
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made political compromise difficult.
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The Whig Party's showing in the presidential election of 1852 demonstrated that it
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no longer had strong national support.
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In the 1850s, the Democrats remained relatively united by
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supporting popular sovereignty.
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In 1855, popular sovereignty in Kansas led to
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the formation of two governments.
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South Carolina representative Preston Brooks's attack on Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner had the effect of
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giving the Republican Party a symbol of southern villainy.
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Dred Scott based his claim to freedom on
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his travels and residences in free areas.
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Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's 1857 decision in the Dred Scott case ruled that
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a. blacks were not citizens of the United States.
b. travel in free territories did not make slaves free.
c. Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories.
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Before the 1850s, Southerners used threats of secession to
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gain concessions within the Union.
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Most Northerners believed that John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, was
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a lawless act of unwarranted violence.
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Shortly before the 1860 presidential election, a southern business convention meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, shocked Northerners and many Southerners by calling for
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the reopening of the African slave trade.
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In 1860, Southern Democrats demanded
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a federal slave code in the territories.
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The 1848 congressional territorial debate made it obvious that
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both the Whigs and the Democrats had antislavery factions.
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The Free-Soil Party's 1848 presidential platform called for
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a. no slavery in the western territories.
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The issue of slavery in the territories erupted in Congress in 1849 after President Taylor
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encouraged California and New Mexico to apply for admission to the Union.
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Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois managed to pass the Compromise of 1850 by
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breaking Henry Clay's Omnibus Bill into its various parts.
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Responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin varied according to
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geography: Southerners hated it, while Northerners loved it.
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Franklin Pierce, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1852, was nominated largely because he
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was sympathetic to Southerners' views on public issues.
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The 1853 Gadsden Purchase, which involved buying some 30,000 square miles of territory from Mexico, stemmed from the desire to
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build a transcontinental railroad to California.
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Stephen A. Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act was controversial because it required
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the Missouri Compromise to be repealed.
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The Know-Nothing Party that emerged in the 1850s was organized around the split between
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Roman Catholic immigrants and native Protestants.
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The Republican Party developed in the 1850s around the issue of
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slavery in the territories.
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The only real issue in the presidential election of 1856 was the
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extension of slavery into the territories.
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The presidential election of 1856 made it obvious that
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sectionalism had created a new party system.
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For Republicans, the Dred Scott decision had the effect of
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strengthening the party.
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Abraham Lincoln believed that the Constitution
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sanctioned slavery where it existed already but allowed Congress to contain its spread.
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Like the majority of Republicans, Abraham Lincoln held that slavery was
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immoral but that black equality was impractical.
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In 1857, Stephen A. Douglas came out against the proslavery Lecompton constitution for Kansas in part because he
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hoped the action would improve his political prospects.
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The Democratic Party split in 1860 after its nominating convention voted in favor of a platform endorsing
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popular sovereignty in the territories.
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The Republicans' 1860 presidential platform
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defined a broad social and economic agenda that appealed to a wide range of Northerners.
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Alexander Stephens of Georgia and other southern moderates opposed secession on the grounds that
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slavery was more protected in the Union than outside of it.
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in most of the states that seceded between December 1860 and February 1861, the vote for separation from the Union was
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