US History Chapter 8 Quiz Questions

Question 1

antislavery novel that changed Northern perceptions of slavery

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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informal but well organized system that helped thousands fo enslaved persons escape

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Underground Railroad

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taking states out of the union

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Secession

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act that organized the Nebraska territory

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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the idea that citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide if they wanted to permit slavery or not

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Popular Sovereignty

Question 6

The first battle between those favoring the extension of slavery and those opposing it took place in?

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Kansas

Question 7

The issue of slavery’s expansion divided the country not along party lines, but along…

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Sectional Lines

Question 8

A free person of color could be falsely taken into custody under the terms of the

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Fugitive Slave Act

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If California entered the Union as a free state, the slaveholding states would become a minority in the …

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Senate

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Who was the senator that proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to slavery’s expansion?

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Lewis Cass

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legalized slavery in the Kansa territory

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Lecompton Constitution

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enslaved man whose Missouri slaveholder had taken him to live in free territory

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Dred Scott

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officially organized in 1854 at a convention in Michigan

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Republican Party

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rebellion

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insurrection

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better known as the “know nothings”

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American Party

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In 1858 the Illinois Republican nominee for the Senate was a relative unkown named

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Abraham Lincoln

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act had enraged many people who opposed the extension of slavery because it repealed the..

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Missouri Compromise

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What became a political issue itself and further intensified the sectional conflict rather than removing the issue of slavery in the territories from politics as hoped?

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The Dred Scott Decision

Question 19

The Democratic nominee for presiden in 1856 was James Buchanan. His record in Congress showed that he believed the best way to save the Union was to make concessions to…

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The South

Question 20

Stephen A. Douglas’s reply that he accepted the Dred Scott ruling, but argued that people could still keep slavery out by refusing to pass the laws needed to regulate and enforce it, became known as the

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Freeport Doctrine

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a new nation, the Confederate States of America

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Confederacy

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when the military takes control of an area, replacing civilian authorities and suspending certain civil rights

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Martial Law

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proposed several amendements to the Constitution concerning slavery issues

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John J. Crittenden

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candidate of the Constitutional Union Party who campaigned to uphold both the Constitution and the Union

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John Bell

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chosen as president of the Confederate States of America

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Jefferson Davis

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President Lincoln’s declaration that the Union would hold on to federal property in the Southern states clearly referred to

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Washington D.C

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The convention of the Confederate states drafted a constitution containing a provision that

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guaranteed slavery in their territory

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The Southern Democrats organized their own convention in 1860 and nominated

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John C. Breckinridge

Question 29

The dissolution of the Union began in the state where anti-Northern secessionist sentiment had long been intense

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South Carolina

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When delegates at the Republicans’ Chicago convention in 1860 became convinced that their first choice, William Seward, might not have wide appeal in the North, the party turned to..

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Abraham Lincoln