Chapter 15 Test

What event occurred in the United States in the same year that Alexander II freed the serfs in Russia?

• Raid on Harpers Ferry
• Lincoln elected president
• Civil War begins
• French troops occupy Mexico City

Based on the two maps, which of the following statements is correct?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 abolished slaveholding in United States territories
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the United States
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 decreased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the United States
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased the number of free states in the United States

Based on the information above, which presidential candidate received the most electoral and popular votes in the election of 1860?

• Lincoln
• Breckinridge
• Bell
• Douglas

In which of the following years was Henry Clay not elected to the senate?

• 1806
• 1811
• 1831
• 1849

According to the __________ a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding fugitives.

• Southern Slave Act
• Owners-Right Act
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Runaway Slave Act

The 1860 presidential candidate whose name did not appear on the ballot in most Southern states was

• Abraham Lincoln.
• John Breckinridge.
• John Bell
• Stephen A. Douglas

Who was the senator from Kentucky who tried to save the Union by proposing a last-minute compromise?

• John Calhoun
• John Bell
• Henry Clay
• John Crittenden

What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more?

• Fugitive Slave case
• Dred Scott case
• Clay's ruling
• John Brown case

Based on the map, in 1860 Kentucky and West Virginia were both _____.

• Union free states
• slave states
• Union territories
• Union slave states

Based on the map, which of the following statements is correct?

• In 1861, the boundary between the Union and the Confederacy ran from Texas to Virginia
• In 1861, the boundary between the Union and the Confederacy ran from Texas to New York
• In 1861, the boundary between the Union and the Confederacy ran from Missouri to Delaware.
• In 1861, the boundary between the Union and the Confederacy ran from Maine to California.