Union in Crisis Test Review

In the late 1840s, what led to the question of whether slavery should expand to the territories?

• the enactment of the Wilmot Proviso
• the violence of “Bleeding Kansas”
• the results of the Mexican War.
• the attack at Harpers Ferry

The Fugitive Slave Act angered Northerners because?

• it prioritized states’ rights over the rights of the federal government.
• it contradicted the Missouri Compromise.
• it contradicted the Wilmot Proviso.
• it increased federal intervention in the affairs of independent states.

Which of these were nullified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Missouri Compromise
• personal liberties laws
• idea of popular sovereignty
• Crittenden Compromise

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncles Tom’s Cabin infuriated the South because it?

• was a work of fiction by a northern white woman.
• spread anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
• portrayed all slave owners as evil.
• advocated a violent rebellion of slaves.

Why was Abolitionist John Brown executed?

• for his attempt to seize the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry
• for his midnight massacre
• for his part in “Bleeding Kansas”
• for beating Charles Sumner with a cane

Abolitionists believed that slavery?

• worked better than a free labor system.
• threatened unskilled workers in the north.
• was morally wrong and wanted to end it.
• belonged only in the southern states.

What provision did the Compromise of 1850 include?

• California would be admitted as a free state.
• Slavery would be ended in Washington D.C.
• Congress would abolish the Fugitive Slave Law.
• Texas would gain New Mexico for $10 million.

Under the new Fugitive Slave Act passed in 1850,

• northerners could buy and sell slaves in Washington, D.C.
• Congress declared that slavery was morally wrong.
• popular sovereignty would decide the slave issue in New Mexico.
• citizens who helped a runaway slave could be imprisoned.

What conductor on the Underground Railroad was known as “Black Moses”?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Martin Delany
• Harriet Tubman

What is the “domestic institution” that Lincoln is referring to in his inaugural address?

“[T]he maintenance . . . of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment [alone], is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend. . . .”   —Abraham Lincoln, 1st inaugural address, March 4, 1861

• slavery
• the Civil War
• secession from the Union
• the attack on Fort Sumner