Show Symbols

5 Written Questions

1. Economic downturn caused by overspeculation of western lands, railroads, gold in California, grain. Mostly affected northerners, who called for higher tariffs and free homesteads
2. Senator who, originally pro-North, supported the Compromise of 1850 and subsequently lost favor from his constituency
3. Anti-foreign political party that didn't do much. One of the first nativist "American" parties.
4. Stringent set of laws that allows Southern slave-catchers to pursue slaves into the north.
5. Southerners meet with Spain on sail of Cuba, Northern senators don't want it due to slave potential

5 Matching Questions

1. Pottawamie Creek
2. Impending Crisis
3. Crittenden Amendments
4. Dred Scott Decision
5. James Buchanan

1. a By Hinton Helper, this book argued that slavery was harmful to whites who did not own slaves
2. b Site of anti-slavery kills of 5 pro-slavery men lead by John Brown
3. c Antebellum president who claimed that secession was illegal but going to war was also illegal, indecisive
4. d Last ditch attempt to restore status quo at thirty-six thirty, too little too late
5. e Landmark court decision that ruled that slaves were property and antislavery laws were unconstitutional

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pro-slavery sack of anti-slavery town
   1. James Buchanan
   2. Panic of 1857
   3. Zachary Taylor
   4. Sack of Lawrence
2. Senator from Illinois, author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Freeport Doctrine, argues in favor of popular sovereignty
   1. South Carolina
   2. Preston Brooks
   3. Bleeding Kansas
   4. Stephen Douglas
3. Election year, Democrat Lewis Cass v. Whig Zachary Taylor (no experience) v. Free Soil Van Buren. Taylor wins
   1. 1852
   2. 1856
   3. 1860
   4. 1848
4. Name of anti-slavery government in Kansas
   1. 1860
   2. Topeka
   3. 1856
   4. 1852
5. Pre-Civil War skirmish in which John Brown attempts to incite a slave uprising by seizing arms. Due to lack of communication, nothing happens, and Brown is hanged (and martyred)
   1. Raid at Harper's Ferry
   2. Sack of Lawrence
   3. Daniel Webster
   4. Uncle Tom's Cabin

5 True/False Question

1. Bleeding Kansas → By Hinton Helper, this book argued that slavery was harmful to whites who did not own slaves
   

   True        False

2. Shawnee Mission → Radical Republican against the slave power who insults Andrew Butler and subsequently gets caned by Preston Brooks
   

   True        False

3. Preston Brooks → Responsible for beating radical republican Charles Sumner with his cane
   

   True        False

4. Personal Liberty Laws → Bills enacted by northerners in response to the injustices of the Fugitive Slave Act
   

   True        False

5. Lecompton Constitution → Pro-slave constitution that got voted in for Kansas after anti-slavery people boycotted the election
   

   True        False