APUSH Chapter 15 Quiz

An outbreak of violence in the Midwest, due to the rights of a state to allow slavery, was known as

• Broken Kansas

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas/Nebraska War

Abolitionist John Brown led a failed raid on the federal arsenal at

• Manassas, Virginia

• Antietam

• Harper's Ferry

• Gettysburg

The idea that people should decide for themselves if their state would support slavery or not, within their borders

• Sharecropping

• Popular sovereignty

• States' Rights

• Indenture

Nullified Missouri Compromise; split northern part of Louisiana Territory; popular sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• New Mexico-Utah Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Washington-Oregon Act

Who won the Election of 1860, leading to the secession of southern states?

• Abraham Lincoln

• James Buchanan

• Andrew Jackson

• Jefferson Davis

Why was the Gadsden Purchase added to the U.S. in 1853?

• It was needed for the building of a railroad

• It was a gift from Mexico

• It was part of the treaty with Mexico

• Gold was discovered in that area

What did the Dred Scott decision say?

• It considered slaves to be property without rights

• It outlawed slavery in all U.S. states

• It required that slavery not be allowed in all new states

• It gave slaves all the rights of U.S. citizens

What political party was formed by Whigs, Free-Soil Democrats, & was supported by workers & blacks?

• Republican Party

• Federalist Party

• Democratic-Republican Party

• American Party

What did abolitionist John Brown want to do by attacking Harper's Ferry?

• Start a slave revolt

• Start the Civil War

• Help Virginia secede

• Assassinate the president

Which of the following was a result of the events portrayed in the cartoon?

• The split of the Democratic Party

• The decline of the Whig Prty

• The growth of the Republican Party

• All of the above