Question 1

Awakened many free staters to the evils of slavery:

Accepted Answer

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Answer

KS-NE Act

Answer

John Brown's Rebellion

Answer

Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

Question 2

What was the most controversial part of the 1850 Compromise?

Accepted Answer

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer

CA entering as a free state upset the Senate balance

Answer

New Mexico and Utah were admitted without restrictions on slavery

Answer

slavery was banned in Washington, D.C.

Question 3

Why did many Northerners ignore Taney's opinion in Scott v. Sanford?

Accepted Answer

his opinion went beyond the main legal issue in the case

Answer

northerners felt the act did not do enough to protect slavery where it already existed

Answer

most northerners had become radical abolitionists by the late 1850s

Answer

most northerners agreed blacks should have the same rights as whites

Question 4

Which of the following were major effects of the KS-NE Act?

Accepted Answer

the formation of the Republican Party and bloodshed in the Midwest

Answer

a short lived period of national unity & the completion of the Transcontinental RR

Answer

the secession of seven southern states & the formation of the Confederate States of America

Answer

the nullification of the Fugitive Slave Laws & John Brown's Raid

Question 5

Initially, this party's antislavery position only involved preventing the SPREAD of slavery into new territories and states:

Accepted Answer

Republicans

Answer

Whigs

Answer

Democrats

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