1 .		Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the first exposure most northerners had to the actual conditions of slaves' lives. [Hint]  True  False
2 .		In the 1850 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, the United States and Great Britain agreed to demilitarize the Great Lakes. [Hint]  True  False
3 .		Senator Stephen Douglas was the most prominent spokesman for the Young America movement in the 1850s. [Hint]  True  False
4 .		Senator Stephen Douglas declared the institution of slavery was morally wrong. [Hint]  True  False
5 .		The Kansas-Nebraska Act was the "greatest single step" toward secession and civil war. [Hint]  True  False
6 .		In order to gain southern support for a transcontinental railroad, Stephen Douglas agreed to repeal the Missouri Compromise's prohibition of slavery north of 36° 30' in the new Kansas-Nebraska Territory. [Hint]  True  False
7 .		The Republican party was an abolitionist party. [Hint]  True  False
8 .		During the localized civil war in "Bleeding Kansas" in the mid-1850s, President Pierce supported the proslavery advocates in Kansas. [Hint]  True  False
9 .		Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner vigorously insisted on the admission of Kansas to the Union as a free state. [Hint]  True  False
10 .		President Buchanan recommended that Congress admit Kansas to the Union as a free state. [Hint]  True  False
11 .		In his debate with Senator Douglas in 1858, Abraham Lincoln not only condemned slavery as an immoral institution, he also condemned slaveowners as immoral individuals. [Hint]  True  False
12 .		In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln expressed his support for the Fugitive Slave Law and endorsed the view that blacks were inferior to whites. [Hint]  True  False
13 .		In the 1860 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln won a narrow majority of the vote in both the popular balloting and the electoral vote. [Hint]  True  False
14 .		Concern for states' rights and a strict constructionist view of the Constitution were the most basic reasons why the South seceded from the Union. [Hint]  True  False