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Chapter 14: The Coming of the Civil War

Multiple Choice Quiz #1

Multiple Choice Quiz #1
This quiz reviews some of the topics in this chapter. The answer choices are randomized, so the quiz will be different every time you take it. For each question, select the button next to the answer you believe is correct. When you are done, click “Submit for Grade” in order to see how well you did.

This activity contains 9 questions.

	In the early 1850s, enforcement of the _____ gave many northerners an eyewitness view of the heartlessness of slavery.   Dred Scott decision Fugitive Slave Act Freeport Doctrine Kansas-Nebraska Act Compromise of 1850

	American acquisition of Cuba was advocated in the   Compromise of 1850. Treaty of Havana. Gadsden Purchase. Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. Ostend Manifesto.

	Northerners thought they saw evidence of a slave power conspiracy designed to give southerners control of national policy in all of these events EXCEPT the   Walker's seizure of Nicaragua. Freeport Doctrine. Dred Scott decision. Kansas-Nebraska Act. Ostend Manifesto.

	The greatest beneficiary of the northern outrage over passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was the _______ party.   Liberty Whig Democratic Republican Know-Nothing

	Charles Sumner was a Senate spokesman for   popular sovereignty. states' rights. nativism. abolitionism. secession.

	Which one of the following was NOT associated with the proslavery element in Kansas Territory?   early immigrants to Kansas from Missouri Lecompton Constitution "border ruffians" the sack of Lawrence John Brown

	The Lecompton Constitution was approved by   Congress. a majority of the eligible voters in Kansas. Republicans. President Buchanan. Stephen Douglas.

	In their 1858 debates, Lincoln and Douglas were in agreement as to the   Freeport Doctrine. morality of slavery. probable inferiority of blacks. implication of the Dred Scott decision. status of slavery in the territories.

	Which one of the following was NOT a feature of the election of 1860?   The Democratic party divided into hostile northern and southern wings. The Republican party divided over the issue of slavery in the territories. The winner won less than a majority of the popular vote. John Bell won more electoral votes than Stephen Douglas The nation now had a president who had virtually no support in the South.

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