Laws
This law, which allowed territories to decide the fate of slavery based on popular sovereignty, unintentionally had the effect of increasing tensions between pro-slavery and antislavery forces as they rushed west and had violent clashes over control of territory. It was the
A) Compromise of 1850.
B) Fugitive Slave Act.
C) Kansas-Nebraska Act.
D) Northwest Ordinance.
C) Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Which of these was a DIRECT result of the failed slave revolt of Nat Turner in 1831?
A) Southern legislatures reexamined the moral foundation of keeping millions of blacks as slaves.
B) Congress passed a law that would phase out the importation of African slaves in the coming decade.
C) Laws greatly restricting the legal rights of free blacks and slaves were passed throughout the South.
D) President Buchanan was elected for a second term, putting off the slavery conflict for another decade.
C) Laws greatly restricting the legal rights of free blacks and slaves were passed throughout the South.
Frederick Douglass was an advocate for
A) abolition.
B) conservation.
C) prohibition.
D) temperance.
A) abolition.
The event MOST LIKELY occurring due to the 1860 presidential election of Lincoln was
A) the beginning of Reconstruction.
B) the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
C) the John Brown-led raid at Harper's Ferry.
D) the secession of South Carolina from the Union.
D) the secession of South Carolina from the Union.
Following the American Revolution, what was the PRIMARY economic activity in the Southern states?
A) mining
B) manufacturing
C) cotton farming
D) indigo farming
C) cotton farming
Which BEST describes a result of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?
A) A slave had the right to sue for freedom in a federal court.
B) A slave was only a citizen after he or she purchased freedom.
C) A slave was not a citizen but rather the property of an owner.
D) A slave who lived on free soil for any length of time was free.
C) A slave was not a citizen but rather the property of an owner.
In the Antebellum period, what was the most common way in which a slave would rebel against his or her owner?
A) by organizing an armed uprising
B) by obeying all the masters requests
C) by breaking tools and working slowly
D) by participating in anti-Christian services
C) by breaking tools and working slowly
Which of these BEST describes the efforts of William Lloyd Garrison?
A) organized an unsuccessful slave revolt in 1826.
B) advocated the settling of Liberia by freed slaves.
C) advocated for educational reform in rural areas of the U.S.
D) urged immediate emancipation of slaves in the United States.
D) urged immediate emancipation of slaves in the United States.
Which is the BEST description of Abraham Lincoln's stance regarding slavery during the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858?
A) He believed that the expansion of slavery endangered the Union.
B) He supported a Constitutional amendment to ban slavery in all states and territories.
C) He believed that slavery should be prohibited in new territories entering the Union, but should remain in place in the Southern states.
D) He supported the idea of "popular sovereignty" and felt that it was the right of the citizens of a territory to permit or prohibit slavery.
A) He believed that the expansion of slavery endangered the Union.
Which book is the BEST example of how growing sectional differences between the North and South were expressed in the literature of the Antebellum period?
A) The Birth of a Nation by D.W, Griffith
B) Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe
C) The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin
D) The Planter's Northern Bride by Caroline Hentz
B) Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe
What did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and "Bleeding Kansas" have in common?
A) They were all vetoed by President Abraham Lincoln.
B) They helped Abraham Lincoln win the Election of 1860.
C) They all dealt with the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
D) They were permanent solutions to the conflict between the North and South.
C) They all dealt with the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
How did John Brown contribute to the abolitionist movement?
A) John Brown fought on the Union side during the Civil War.
B) John Brown led enslaved African Americans through the Underground Railroad.
C) John Brown participated in raids against slavery in Harpers Ferry and Kansas.
D) John Brown worked with Harriet Tubman to orchestrate the Underground Railroad.
C) John Brown participated in raids against slavery in Harpers Ferry and Kansas.
Nat Turner is MOST known in American history for
A) leading an unsuccessful slave revolt in Virginia in the 1830s.
B) leading the first all-black army regiment during the Civil War.
C) being the first African slave to come to British North America.
D) being a leading intellectual abolitionist orator before the Civil War.
A) leading an unsuccessful slave revolt in Virginia in the 1830s.
How many Southern States did Lincoln win?
None
Sectionalism was a major part of the events that led to the Civil War. What does sectionalism refer to?
A) women and men worked in different areas
B) people wanted to live further apart from each other
C) life in the North was very different than life in the South
D) the United States hoped to expand into new areas of the world
C) life in the North was very different than life in the South
This was an agreement that California would be admitted to the Union, the slave trade in the District of Columbia would be restricted, and the Fugitive Slave Law would be enforced.
Compromise of 1850
Why was Harper's Ferry, Virginia, significant in the Antebellum Era?
A) It was the first capital of the Confederacy.
B) It was the first city to withdraw from the Union.
C) It was the location of the first shots of the Civil War.
D) It was the site of a failed slave rebellion in October of 1859.
D) It was the site of a failed slave rebellion in October of 1859.
Most white men in the antebellum South could BEST be described as
A) plantation owners.
B) seafaring traders.
C) merchants or shopkeepers.
D) nonslaveholding family farmers.
D) nonslaveholding family farmers.
Lincoln was a member of what political party?
Republican
Before the Civil War began, which issue played the GREATEST role in increasing tension and conflict between northern and southern states?
A) northern opposition to the Tariff of 1832
B) westward expansion and the issue of how to seize land owned by the Native Americans
C) westward expansion and the issue of whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories
D) the Indian Removal Act, the "Trail of Tears," and the creation of Indian reservations in Oklahoma
C) westward expansion and the issue of whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories
This was a 1857 Supreme Court decision that a slave, because he was not a citizen, could not sue for his freedom.
Dred Scott Decision
This was a system of secret "safe-houses" and hiding places to aid runaway slaves escape.
Underground Railroad
What was Harriet Beecher Stowe's BIGGEST role in the Antebellum United States?
A) She fought for women's right to vote.
B) She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852.
C) She convince President Lincoln to grow a beard.
D) She composed The Battle Hymn of the Republic in 1861.
B) She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852.
True or False Lincoln was elected in 1858 as Illinois Senator.
False
Which describes a key difference between the lives of freed African Americans and free whites in the antebellum South?
A) Freed African Americans had to carry documentation at all times, but free whites did not.
B) Freed African Americans were required to pay state taxes, but free whites were not.
C) Free whites could marry slaves, but freed African Americans could not.
D) Free whites could own slaves, but freed African Americans could not.
A) Freed African Americans had to carry documentation at all times, but free whites did not.