PRACTICE: Early US Final Exam

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman BOTH...

• escaped slavery and went on to become famous abolitionists
• were born free in the North but kidnapped under the Fugitive Slave Act
• supported secession
• supported the idea that women should have full and total political equality with men

What major event in the late 1840s led to the question of whether slavery would be contained or would expand?

• the results of the Mexican American War
• the violence of "Bleeding Kansas"
• the result of Dred Scot v. Sandford
• the attack at Harper's Ferry

The Fugitive Slave Act angered Northerners for many reasons. What was NOT one of those reasons?

• it put harsh penalties on anyone who helped a runaway slave
• it undercut the desires of northern states, which had abolished slavery in earlier years
• it put a target on any black person in the North, who could be kidnapped and sent "back" into slavery
• informants who assisted in the capture of runaways were paid too little for their help

The events of “Bleeding Kansas” can be attributed to

• the competition between farmers trying to settle the land.
• the blistering speech of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor.
• the competition between anti slavery and pro slavery groups
• Preston Brook’s attack on Sumner.

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncles Tom’s Cabin infuriated the South because it

• was a work of fiction by a northern white woman.
• spread anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
• portrayed all slave owners as evil.
• advocated a violent rebellion of slaves.

“That the maintenance … of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends…” A. Lincoln – First Inaugural Address What is the “domestic institution” that Lincoln is referring to in his inaugural address?

• slavery
• the Civil War
• the attack on Fort Sumner
• secession from the Union

The Dred Scott decision stated that slaves

• were the property of their owners regardless of where they lived or moved.
• were free when living in a free territory.
• should be made American citizens.
• should have the right to sue in the courts.

As a Republican candidate for President in the election of 1860, Lincoln had complicated views about slavery. What was NOT one of his beliefs?

• slavery was immoral and would end eventually
• slavery should not expand into the territory gained in the Mexican-American War
• African Americans deserve the same political rights as white men
• the federal government should not interfere in slavery in the Southern states that already practiced it

Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?

• he wanted to negotiate for peace with the Confederacy
• he wanted to make sure that women could emancipate themselves from bad marriages
• he wanted to grant all African Americans the right to vote
• he realized that slavery helped the war effort of the Confederacy - by "freeing" the enslaved there, hopefully the Confederates would lose their work force

Seceding states believed that they had to leave the Union in order to

• protect their property (enslaved people) and their way of life (slavery).
• have a stronger voice in United States government.
• make sure the Crittenden Compromise was adopted.
• oust President Lincoln from office.