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Chapter 13 Self-Quiz 1
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Which of the following was an "internal improvement" championed during the 1850s?
The first canals were built.
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Highway construction.
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Railroad expansion.
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None of the above.
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How did white southerners feel about territorial expansion?
That it constituted progress and showed the strength of the slave economy.
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That it should be feared, as it might provide competition.
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They mostly ignored it in favor of "King Cotton."
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That it would lead to Civil War.
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What effect did the California Gold Rush have on the slavery question.
It sparked a crisis in the government about slavery in the newly-acquired territories.
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It led Texas to be admitted as a free state.
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It invalidated the Missouri Compromise.
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It led to a broad series of compromises that fully dispelled thoughts of disunion.
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What did the Fugitive Slave Act require?
Slaves could purchase their freedom from federal commissioners if they reached the north.
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Fugitive slaves in the north became free.
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Runaway slaves could be caught in the north, but they had a right to a lawyer and a jury trial.
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Any northerner could be forced into helping catch runaway slaves.
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Who were the "Know-Nothings"?
Members of a pro-Catholic welfare society.
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Members of a secret abolitionist organization.
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Members of nativist and anti-Catholic organizations.
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Members of a group that sought a Chinese Exclusion Act.
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What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act mandate?
There would be a ten-year moratorium before the slavery question would be decided in the territories.
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Residents of Kansas and Nebraska territories would decide slavery via popular sovereignty.
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Kansas entered the U.S. as a slave state and Nebraska as a free state.
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Kansas entered the U.S. as a free state and Nebraska as a slave state.
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What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the two-party system?
The Whig Party initially opposed the bill but eventually bowed to popular pressure and supported it.
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It propelled the Democrats to power in the House and forced its opponents to regroup.
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It prompted former whigs, Free Soilers, and northern Democrats to create the Republican Party.
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It prompted the Free Soil Party to take control of Congress for the first time.
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How did Southern spokesmen defend slavery?
They argued that slavery provided poor whites a chance to make their fortune.
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They argued that blacks could not work beyond the south.
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They argued that blacks did not respond to free labor incentives.
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All of the above.
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What did the Republican Party should be done in terms of broadening free blacks' rights?
The party was very divided, and radicals and conservatives struggled to find common ground.
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The party wanted to abolish slavery but keep discrimination in place.
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The party argued for immediate, complete rights.
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The party argued that free blacks should emigrate to Africa.
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What was the effect of Charles Sumner's two-day diatribe about "Bleeding Kansas"?
He lost support in the north for being too radical.
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He was beaten senseless on the Senate floor.
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He gained support and ran for President.
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He was challenged by Congressman Preston Brooks and beat Brooks with a cane.
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What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case?
That Scott should be legally free.
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That Scott was not a citizen and could not be a citizen ever.
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That Scott was not legally free, but he might become free some day.
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That slavery should be illegal in the territories.
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Why did John Brown try to capture Harper's Ferry?
To force Southern states to secede.
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To use it as a base camp to lead an attack on Washington.
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To capture its arsenal and distribute the guns to local slaves.
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As a dramatic gesture to point out the moral abhorrence of slavery.
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Who won the 1860 election?
Stephen Douglas
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Abraham Lincoln
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Andrew Johnson
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Jefferson Davis
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Who were the "fire-eaters"?
Temperance activists who wanted to destroy liquor supplies.
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Anti-slavery extremists
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Pro-slavery extremists.
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Moderates who tried to prevent secession.
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How did the north respond to John Brown's raid?
Northern militias rose up and freed Brown from prison.
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It provoked a crisis that pushed both sides to moderation.
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Most commentators deplored his extreme behavior.
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With extraordinary displays of sympathy after his execution.
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Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 in large part due to his campaigning in the South.
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In the 1850s industry was replacing agriculture as the driving economic force.
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Abolitionists and proslavery writers disagreed that the conflict between the North and South over slavery was irreconcilable.
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Between the years 1830 and 1860 the proportion of southern white families who held slaves increased from one in four to one in three.
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Moving west, buying land, and establishing a farm required more resources than most wage laborers had in the mid-1800s.
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