1. The admission of Missouri as a slave state was controversial in the Senate because
the Senate was pro-slavery.
it would create sectionalism.
**it would upset the balance.
the Senate was anti-slavery.
2. The main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was
Western territories.
war with Mexico.
**slavery.
the economy.
3. Southerners justified secession with the theory of
constitutional rights.
federal rights.
the Union's errors.
**states' rights.
4. What plan specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico?
Missouri Compromise
Clay's Plan
Mexican Plan
**Wilmot Proviso
5. What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system?
Slavery in the South
Slavery's System
African Americans in Slavery
**Uncle Tom's Cabin
6. What was the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery?
Texas
**Kansas
Missouri
South Carolina
7. In the election of 1856, the presidency was secured for James Buchanan by
Northern votes.
Republican votes.
**Southern votes.
Whig votes.
8. What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more?
**Fugitive Slave case
Dred Scott case
Clay's ruling
John Brown case
9. Douglas's stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders' rights came to be known as
Douglas's Debate.
**the Slaveholder's Rights.
the Freeport Doctrine.
Douglas's Doctrine.
10. How did the 1860 election contribute to the breakup of the Union?
by electing a president many believed would not protect Southern rights
by electing a pro-slavery president whom the North would not tolerate
by allowing freed slaves to vote
**by electing a president whose stated intention was to outlaw slavery immediately
**+ my answers
34 answers
I don't know about 9.
Please double check your book.
9: Freeport Doctrine
10: A.
The rest are right
1c
2c
3d
4d
5d
6b
7c
8b
9c
10a
1) C
2) C
3) D
4) D
5) D
6) B
7) C
8) B
9) C
10) A
100%
My teacher is also mad at meh. Laaame.
Sorry for you, but I got a 10/10 FF
Soooo...