Sutton Road to War Questions

The statement which best expresses the principle of "popular sovereignty" is

"settlers in a given territory have the sole right to determine whether slavery will be permitted there"

During the tumultuous decade of the 1850s, dynamic and judicious national government leadership was provided by

none of the above

Which was NOT part of the South's justification process regarding states' rights which led ultimately to secession?

The Supreme Court's power of "judicial review" was a valued role of the Court which made it an imprtant cog in the checks and balances system created under the Constitution's clear desire for separation of government branches

The "Young America" movement, an expansionist sentiment which attempted to extend that nation's zest for Manifest Destiny beyond the North American continent, argued that

democracy would triumph throughout the globe

The most prominent spokesman of the "Young America" movement was

Stephen Douglas

In the spirit of the "Young America" movement, William Walker attempted to gain control of ____ during the mid-1800s - rumors even emerged that communication had transpired with President Franklin Pierce about its possible admission to the Union as a slave state!

Nicaragua

The United States attempted to establish some control over a future conal across the isthmus of Central America by negotiating with

Great Britain

The Ostend Manifesto was an Amercan statement supporting aggresive acquisition of

Cuba

Commodore Matthew Perry was instrumental in extending the "Young America" movement to

Japan

As a result of the Compromise of 1850's modified Fugitive Slave Law

many northerners who were not abolitionists were outraged at the sight of people being forced to return to slavery

The 1850s politician known as the "Henry Clay of his generation" based on his politics on

continental expansion and popular soverignty

The Underground Railroad

aided tens of thousands of southern slaves to escape to freedom yearly

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was important because it

raised national awareness regarding the inhumanity of slavery

Stephen Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 partly because of his

plans for constructing a transcontinental railroad

Which political party was LEAST active during the 1850s?

Whig

The average settler in Kansas

was not strongly interested in the slavery question

One major cause of disorder in Kansas was the

interference from outsiders concerning the slavery issue

In May 1856, _____ slaughtered five unarmed, pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in the midst of Bleeding Kansas.

John Brown

As a result of Bleeding Kansas, two territorial capitals existed simultaneously, pro-slavery _____, which was fraudulent because it was determined by vote including some participants who resided outside Kansas, and free state ____, which was extralegal because it was declared after the first capital was established (even though the first seat was fraudulent, it had not been legally disvowed by the national government).

Lecompton … Lawrence

The main respinsibility for Bleeding Kansas rests upon

the Franklin Pierce presidential administration, which did not ensure honest elections

Which match of label (left) with 1850s activity (right) is NOT correct?

Exodusters … free black settlers in Kansas

According to Garraty/Carnes, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the southern-dominated Supreme Court deftly - and ironically - used the ____ to justify and protect the practice of slavery

Bill of Rights

A major implication of Dred Scott ruling was that

slavery was a nationwide institution, excluded only where states specifically abolished it

Many northerners believed that the Panic of 1857

was caused by the southern-dominated Congress

Prior to becoming President, Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery displayed his

compassion toward the slaveholder blended with condemnation of slavery

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Stephen Douglas set out to make Abraham Lincoln look like a ____ while Lincoln tried to portray Douglas as a ____.

devoted abolitionist … pro-slavery defender of the Dred Scott decision

During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln

opposed slavery as well as social and political equality for blacks

"It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to abstract question … the people have the lawful means to introduce or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist … unless it is supported by local police regulations." This statement from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, expressing Stephen Douglas's position that territories could circumvent the Dred Scott decision by not enacting the laws necessary for slavery, was called the

Freeport Doctrine

John Brown's major goal in attacking Harpers Ferry was to

seize the federal arsenal and arm the local slaves

Before John Brown was executed by Virginia for treason, conspiracy, and murder,

he behaved with such enormous dignity that many norhterners, including some writers and artists, saw him as a martyr

In the Impending Crisis of the South, Hinton Helper

alarmed southerners when he argued that slavery was ruining the South's economy and social structure

Abraham Lincoln was nominated by the Republican Party for President in 1860 in part because of his

excelent team onf convention managers

John Bell and the Constitutional Union party had their greatest support in the 1860 election among the

border states of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee

In the presidential campaign of 1860

Stephen Douglas realized the outcome and rose above ambition by appealing to voters, North and South alike, to stand by the union.

Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 with a

plurality of the popular vote

The circumstances reflected in the cartoon above support the correct response to question _____ on this Garraty/Carnes worksheet

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"We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions, or we must secede." The source of this quote to secessionist thought it

Mississippi

Which was NOT among the overall justification for the secession by several states of the South?

indications from Great Britain that it would aid - through economic means - an independent South

After secession began in 1860, the proposed constitutional amendment which would have guaranteed the future existence of slavery south of the old Missouri Compromise line was proposed by

John Crittenden of Kentucky

When the states of the Lower South seceded

President-elct Abraham Lincoln thought Secession was a coloccal bluff and announced no plans to deal with it before assuming office

According to Garraty/Carnes, which was the "greatest single step" toward the Civil War?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

The capital of Illinois is

Springfield