HST 303 Unit 6 Test

What was the chief goal of the Compromise of 1850?

• to resolve issues about Texas's statehood

• to preserve the Union

• to improve the national economy

• to preserve the balance between slave states and free states

What theory promoted by Stephen Douglas would allow the people of a territory to allow or forbid slavery?

• Northwest Ordinance

• Legislative options

• Popular sovereignty

• Territorial rights

What legislation attempted to satisfy the southern demand to maintain a balance in the Senate between free states and slave states?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Citizens Choice Act of 1854

• Nebraska Compromise

What political party was formed by uniting several northern antislavery coalitions?

• Republican

• Whig

• Democrat

• Know-Nothing

Who did not believe slavery should be abolished?

• John Brown

• Stephen Douglas

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

What ruling did the Supreme Court make in the Dred Scott decision?

• Slavery was illegal.

• Slaves were citizens.

• Slavery was a choice each state could make.

• Slaves were property.

What helped bring Abraham Lincoln to national prominence?

• his efforts to abolish slavery

• his debates with Stephen Douglas

• the Dred Scott decision

• his willingness to campaign for James Buchanan

One plank of Abraham Lincoln's platform in 1860 was

• allowing slaves to vote.

• building a transcontinental railroad.

• letting popular sovereignty take its course.

• ceding land back to Mexico.

Which state was the first to secede and on what grounds?

• South Carolina; because it felt the federal government violated its obligations to the states

• Virginia; because it wanted to be the home of the Confederate capital

• South Carolina; because it wanted to attack Fort Sumter

• Virginia; because it was closest to Washington, D.C.

What were Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Oregon part of during the Civil War?

• Confederate states

• Union states

• border states

• organized territories