HIS303 Unit 6 Test Review

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 was Stephen Douglas's theory of popular sovereignty?

• The will of the people should dictate who would be governor.

• People within a territory should choose whether to allow slavery or not.

• The president was elected by the people and should make decisions about slavery.

• Just because it was popular in some places, slavery should not be permitted.

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

• Kansas - Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1866

• Dredd Scott Decision

What resulted in the formation of the Republican Party?

• making states more fiscally responsible

• uniting southerners under a pro-slavery platform

• creating manufacturing jobs in the South

• uniting several northern antislavery coalitions

What was a common belief held by Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and John Brown?

• Slavery should be abolished.

• Slavery should be allowed in the South, but not the North.

• Violence was acceptable in order to eliminate slavery.

• The Union should be dissolved.

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 were two outcomes of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

• resolution on slavery-related issues and Lincoln's election to the Senate

• national prominence for Douglas and a presidential primary victory for Lincoln

• passage of the Compromise of 1858 and national publicity for both candidates

• clarification of issues related to slavery and national prominence for Lincoln

What was not an element of Abraham Lincoln's platform in 1860?

• stopping the spread of slavery

• building a transcontinental railroad

• passing a homestead act for western settlement

• reducing tariffs on foreign goods

What was one reason South Carolina gave for its decision to secede?

• to form its own military

• to avoid paying federal taxes

• to uphold the rights of property owners

• to break its contract with the federal government

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

• Confederate states

• Union states

• border states

• organized territories