Question 1

1.  How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the United States?

Accepted Answer

States or territories would decide whether to permit slavery.

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The federal government would have the last word on slavery.

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Slavery would not be permitted in unofficial states.

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Slavery would not be permitted anywhere in the country.

Question 2

What did Harriet Beecher Stowe do to influence the debate over slavery?

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exposed the harsh reality of slave life

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attacked political figures who supported slavery in the South

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pushed for the start of the Civil War

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accused the federal government of obeying the southern states

Question 3

The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the...

Accepted Answer

return of the slavery issue between the North and South.

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prohibition of the practice of slavery in the territories.

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declaration of the Fugitive Slave Act as unconstitutional.

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reinforcement of ideas introduced in the Missouri Compromise.

Question 4

What political party was dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery?

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Free Soil

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Democrats

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Popular Sovereignty

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Republican

Question 5

What term describes the belief that the people living in a region should decide key issues?

Accepted Answer

Popular Sovereignty

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Wilmot Proviso

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Slave Act

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 6

What did Northerners do that made white Southerners fear that slavery would be abolished?

Accepted Answer

tried to pass the Wilmot Proviso

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voted for the Fugitive Slave Act

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cut off trade with Great Britain

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repelled the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 7

What part of the Compromise of 1850 appealed to Southerners?

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some Mexican Cession Territory might allow slavery

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Abraham Lincoln would be impeached

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the Mason-Dixon line would be moved north

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California would become a slave state

Question 8

Exposed the harsh realities of slavery in the book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Frederick Douglas

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Tom Thumb

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Samuel Clemens

Question 9

Democratic candidate who promised to honor the Fugitive Slave Act and the Compromise of 1850 helping him win the election of 1852?

Accepted Answer

Franklin Pierce

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James Buchanan

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John Brown

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Jefferson Davis

Question 10

Introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 to help his home state of Illinois secure a railroad and end the Missouri Compromise.

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Stephen Douglas

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Dred Scott

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Franklin Pierce

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James Buchanan

Question 11

Which of the following was NOT a part of the Compromise of 1850?

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the slave trade would ONLY be allowed in Washington DC

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California would enter the Union as a free state

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a more strict fugitive slave law would be passed

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the rest of the Mexican Cession would be federal land

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