APUSH - Unit 5 - Manifest Destiny-Reconstruction

The proposal for popular sovereignty called for deciding the issue of slavery in the territories through 

• Constitutional amendment
• a vote in both houses of Congress 
• executive order 
• a popular vote by the residents of each territory 

When the Compromise of 1850 finally passed, it included all of the following provisions except

• a strong Fugitive Slave Act 
• the admission of California as a free state 
• the abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• the exclusion of slavery from all parts of the Mexican Cession 

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 contained all of the following provisions except

• declaring the Wilmot Proviso void 
• creating two new federal territories 
• repealing the antislavery provision of the Missouri Compromise 
• using popular sovereignty as a method of compromise 

“Bleeding Kansas” gained its reputation for violence because of the 

• U.S. Army’s vicious tactics while driving the Indians out of the territory 
• general lawlessness of cow towns like Dodge City and Abilene 
• actions of various bandit gangs that roamed the territory before the arrival of federal marshals 
• sporadic warfare between settlers on opposing sides in the battle over the slavery issue 

In 1856, U.S. Representative Preston Brooks, infuriated by an insulting speech directed against his uncle, beat with his cane U.S. Senator 

• Stephen A. Douglas 
• Daniel Webster 
• Henry Clay 
• Charles Sumner 

From the 1830s onward, the general position of white Southerners on the issue of slavery 

• became more flexible as abolitionist arguments gained followers in the South 
• became increasingly sensitive and rigid in defense of the slave labor system 
• remained about the same as it had been in earlier decades 
• caused riots in many Southern cities

In the 1857 case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, the Supreme Court ruled that 

• Congress had no authority to exclude slavery from the federal territories 
• former slaves could gain freedom if their owners voluntarily took them into free states or territories
• Dred Scott was entitled to freedom on a technicality, but his case was unique 
• escaped slaves could apply for freedom as free persons if they evaded capture for ten years or more 

The Lincoln-Douglas debates resulted in all of the following events except

• Douglas won reelection to the U.S. Senate 
• Douglas argued that territorial legislatures could still exclude slavery by simply not passing laws to protect it
• Lincoln gained a national reputation as a Republican leader by performing well 
• Lincoln maintained that the slaves must eventually be freed and awarded full legal equality 

As a result of John Brown's raid on Harper’s Ferry, all of the following events occurred except

• Brown was executed for treason 
• Southerners decided that many Northerners were determined to destroy slavery in the Southern states 
• the U.S. military refused to stop Brown
• abolitionists glorified Brown as a martyr 

During the election of 1860, all of the following events occurred except

• no one received a majority of the electoral votes, so the House of Representatives selected Lincoln as the next president 
• the nation voted largely along sectional lines 
• a new party appeared that tried to hold the union together by avoiding the slavery issue 
• the Democratic party split into Northern and Southern wings and ran opposing candidates