TEST REVIEW SHEET

This assignment is worth 10 points. All questions must have a written answer or response in order to get credit.

MULTIPLE CHOICE

There will be 20 multiple choice questions on the test. They will based on some of the following questions.

1. What were the terms of the Oregon Treaty of 1846?
2. What was fear of the Slave Power a fear of?
3. What were the consequence of the Wilmot Proviso?
4. When John Calhoun put forth the new southern position on the territories in 1846, what did it contradict?
5. What was the most critical question that emerged in the aftermath of the Mexican War?
6. What was the overriding issue in the presidential election of 1848?
7. What is popular sovereignty?
8. Discuss the election of 1848.
9. How did Senator Stephen Douglas salvage the Compromise of 1850?
10. How did the Fugitive Slave Act effect the conflict during the 1850s?
11. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin? How did the book affect the issue of slavery?
12. What motivated the southern demand that slavery be allowed to expand into the territories?
13. How did proslavery folks counteract the statement that slavery was a moral wrong?
14. What did Sociologist George Fitzhugh argue about slavery?
15. Why did Franklin Pierce win the presidency in 1852?
16. What did Pierce’s victory in 1852 confirm voter support of?
17. Who is Anthony Burns and what was the consequence of his case?
18. What did many northerners conclude about Pres. Pierce’s efforts to annex Cuba?
19. Who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska bill into the Senate?
20. What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the Missouri Compromise?
21. What were the different factions that joined together to form the Republican Party in 1854 united by?
22. Which party won most of the House seats from the North in 1854? Why was it important?
23. Where did The American party of the mid-1850s draw its primary support from?
24. What were the major beliefs of the Republican party in the 1850s?
25. How did the southern version of republicanism show itself?
26. Who is Dred Scott and what did the Supreme Court rule regarding his case?
27. What did Lincoln suggest in his speeches in the 1850s?
28. How did President Buchanan’s administration show it was attempting to impose its will on the people of Kansas?
29. What is the Freeport Doctrine?
30. Who was John Brown? Why did his raid cause anger in the South?
31. Why didn’t the Democrats have a real chance to win the election of 1860?
32. What is the difference between an electoral vote and a popular vote? What kind is most important to winning a presidential election? What kind of support did Lincoln have in 1860 in reference to each kind of vote?
33. Why did Senator John J. Crittenden’s attempts at compromise fail?
34. What did Lincoln think when southern leaders threatened secession?
35. Which state seceded from the Union first?
36. What was Lincoln’s big dilemma upon taking office in 1861?
37. Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired at?
38. How com compromise couldn’t be reached when it came to the slavery issue?

MATCHING

There will be 10 matching items on the test. They will come from the following people or references.

George Fitzhugh

Bleeding Kansas

American Party

Stephen Douglas

Abraham Lincoln

Crittenden Compromise

Personal Liberty Laws

Dred Scott case

Franklin Pierce

James K. Polk

Free Soil Party

Henry Clay

Roger B. Taney

David Wilmot

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Lewis Cass

Harriet Beecher Stowe

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

This question will count for 10 points on this test.

In your opinion, based on the information presented in this chapter, was the Civil War inevitable? Were the North and the South doomed from the beginning to battle each other eventually over the slavery issue? Use evidence to support your answer.