HOTA Antebellum Era

Which statement about the Missouri Compromise (1820) is most accurate?

• Slavery was banned west of the Mississippi River

• unorganized territories would be governed by the United States and Great Britain

• the balance between free and slave states was maintained

• the 36 30 line formed a new boundary between the United States and Canada

As the Civil War began, President Abraham Lincoln stated that his primary goal was to

• end slavery

• set new national boundaries

• increase congressional powers

• preserve the Union

The publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, contributed to the start of the Civil War by

• exposing the dangers of cotton manufacturing

• intensifying the Northern dislike of slavery

• pressuring the president to support emancipation

• convincing Congress to ban the importation of slaves

One way that "Bleeding Kansas", the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had a similar effect on the United States was that these events...

• ended conflict over slavery in the territories

• eased tensions between the North and the South

• contributed to the formation of the Whig Party

• made sectional compromise more difficult

Which heading best completes the partial outline below?

I._____________________________

A. Disputes over tariff rates

B. Introduction of slavery into the territories

C. Demands of abolitionists

D. Justification for economic reform

• reasons for the American System

• Successes of third political parties

• causes of sectionalism

• justification for economic reform

The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to...

• end fighting between midwestern farmers and Native American Indians

• encourage manufacturing in the West

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential selections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

What was the immediate cause of the secession of Southern states from the Union prior to the start of the Civil War?

• election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency

• passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown

• decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case

The Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v Sanford (1857) was significant because it...

• allowed slavery in California

• outlawed slavery in the Southern states

• upheld the actions of the Underground Railroad

• ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories

Speaker A: The right way to settle the question of slavery in the territories is to let the people who live there determine if their state is to be slave or free.

Speaker A would support which of the following concepts?

• nullification

• popular sovereignty

• the spoils system

• federal supremacy

One reason abolitionists were unpopular with many Northerners from the 1830s to 1860 was because the abolitionists...

• Favored the growth of slavery

• Encouraged the annexation of Texas

• Advocated views that increased tensions with the South

• Supported the Fugitive Slave Law