Ch. 17 Test

Which of the following best explains why the Democratic Party was not a strong force in the election of 1860?

• Many members of the Democratic Party decided to vote for a Republican candidate.
• The Democrats were a relatively new political party and had not yet gained enough support.
• Many southerners in the Democratic Party became abolitionists and supported other parties.
• The Democrats could not agree on a sigle candidate so their votes were divided between two candidates.

In order to influence the debate over slavery, Harriet Beecher Stowe

• pushed for the start of the Civil War
• exposed the harsh reality of slave life
• accused the federal government of obeying the southern states
• attacked political figures who supported slavery in the South

What was the position of South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun in the debate for the Compromise of 1850?

• Slave states should separate peacefully from the Union.
• Slavery should end in the nation’s capital.
• The federal government should ban the slave trade.
• California should enter the Union as a free state.

The purpose of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was for Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas to

• promote their candidacies for the U.S. Senate
• spread the antislavery movement to the state of Illinois
• gain supporters for the newly formed Republican Party
• fight for the rights of African American slaves

The case of Anthony Burns was significant because it

• marked the end of the Fugitive Slave Act
• was the first case of a fugitive being declared free
• led to a harsher version of the Fugitive Slave Act
• persuaded many to join the abolitionist cause

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney argued in 1857 that Congress could not prohibit someone from taking slaves into a federal territory because

• slaves were not citizens of the United States
• federal territories could not rule against slavery
• the slave trade was still allowed in every state
• slaves were property, and property was defended by law

Democrats nominated James Buchanan to run in the 1856 presidential election because he was

• well liked by abolitionists
• Stephen Douglas’s Vice President
• politically inexperienced, but stood for slavery
• absent from the debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act

On the night of May 24, 1856, five pro-slavery men were killed in Kansas in an event called

• the Pottawatomie Massacre
• John Brown’s Raid
• the Sack of Lawrence
• Shays’s Rebellion

What was Abraham Lincoln’s opinion of John Brown’s raid in Virginia?

• The antislavery movement should not be one of violence and bloodshed.
• Brown was justified in his methods of leading a violent attack in Virginia.
• Slaves in the South should have given stronger support to Brown’s raid.
• The attack in Virginia needed to be better organized to effect change.

After the election of 1860, many southern states seceded from the Union to form the ________________________ States of America.

• Constitutional
• Confederate
• Disunited
• Declarative