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Chapter 6: Sectional Conflict Intensifies, 1848—1860

Sectional Conflict Intensifies, 1848–1860

1
__________ proposed that citizens of each new territory acquired from Mexico should decide whether or not to permit slavery in that territory.
A)The Wilmot Proviso
B)Popular sovereignty
C)Manifest Destiny
D)The Missouri Compromise
2
According to the Fugitive Slave Act, what could happen to citizens of free states who refused to cooperate in the capture of fugitive slaves?
A)The citizens could be jailed.
B)The citizens could lose their property.
C)The citizens could be enslaved themselves.
D)Nothing would happen because federal marshals could not enforce cooperation.
3
Why did Stephen Douglas’s proposal to organize Nebraska and Kansas enrage Northern leaders?
A)The proposal provided that both states would be slave states.
B)The proposal allowed the states to exercise popular sovereignty.
C)The proposal provided that one state would be a slave state and one state would be free.
D)The proposal repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery to expand westward.
4
Why did many Northern Whigs leave their party to form the Republican Party in July 1854?
A)to join forces with the Know-Nothings
B)to keep the Whig Party together
C)to improve working together with Southern politicians
D)to stop Southern planters from becoming an aristocracy that controlled the government
5
How did the Dred Scott decision increase sectional tensions?
A)It upheld the Missouri Compromise.
B)It denied Kansas’s application for statehood.
C)It ruled that the federal government could not prohibit slavery.
D)It supported popular sovereignty in the western territories.
6
Which of the following accurately describes Abraham Lincoln’s position on the slavery issue?
A)His presidential campaign advocated the immediate abolition of slavery.
B)He believed that popular sovereignty would adequately address any conflicts over slavery.
C)Although he was not an abolitionist, he opposed the spread of slavery in the western territories.
D)He proposed a logical solution for free and slave states to coexist in the Union.
7
In the presidential election of 1860, which Democratic candidate advocated popular sovereignty?
A)Abraham Lincoln
B)Stephen Douglas
C)John C. Breckinridge
D)John Bell
8
Which BEST describes the reason why the Southern states seceded from the Union?
A)They viewed Lincoln’s election as a threat to their society and culture.
B)They wanted to uphold the ideals of the American Revolution.
C)They wanted to extend the practice of slavery to the western territories.
D)They wanted their voices heard in Congress.
9
Crittenden’s Compromise tried to preserve the Union by proposing that slavery would be __________.
A)abolished only in the western territories
B)allowed to extend throughout all the western territories
C)prohibited south of the Missouri Compromise line and protected north of it
D)preserved where it already existed
10
What marked the beginning of the Civil War?
A)the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter
B)the firing on a federal supply ship by the Confederates in Charleston Harbor
C)the killing of all federal troops of Fort Sumter
D)the occupation of Charleston by federal troops
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