US Hist A Unit 6 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

  
  

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.

  
  

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

• Nebraska Compromise

  
  

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

  
  

• Fugitive Slave Act

  
  

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

• Republican

• Whig

• Democrat

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.

  
  

• The Union should be dissolved.

  
  

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

• Slavery was illegal.

  
  

• Slaves were citizens.

  
  

• 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

  
  

One plank of Abraham Lincoln's platform in 1860 was

• allowing slaves to vote.

  
  

• building a transcontinental railroad.

  
  

• letting popular sovereignty take its course.

  
  

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

  
  

• 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