A.   He escaped to Massachusetts.

B.   He was tried, convicted, and executed.

C.   He was pardoned by the Republican governor.

D.   He was deported to Canada.

A.   Delegates nominated Jefferson Davis for the presidency

B.   Southern delegates walked out

C.   Delegates nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency

D.   Northern delegates walked out

A.   did not want to compete with slave labor and proposed a ban on slavery in Calfornia

B.   established their own republic and independently governed themselves until 1852

C.   liked the idea of introducing slaves into the mine fields to ease their own workloads

D.   did not have an issue with slavery because slave owners were not bringing slaves to California

A.   he pocketed bribes from southern legislators in return for supporting their causes.

B.   he needed southern support to pass his legislation.

C.   he had never supported the Missouri Compromise in the first place.

D.   he did not think the plan would cause controversy.

A.   The balance of power between the North and the South in Congress

B.   Stricter interstate commerce regulations

C.   Whether or not the nation should engage in a civil war

D.   Whether or not Congress should raise taxes on imports

A.   invaded Kansas to control the election through fraud and intimidation.

B.   saw that the cause was lost and retreated from the contest.

C.   initiated the first orderly implementation of popular sovereignty.

D.   got no support from the presidential administration of Millard Fillmore.

A.   It lent credence to the belief in the North that a slave power conspiracy existed.

B.   It strengthened the Democratic party by unifying its northern and southern branches.

C.   It indicated that the issue of slavery could be determined in any territory long before the moment of statehood.

D.   It precipitated the resignation of Supreme Court justices from the North.

A.   Arizona

B.   Utah

C.   New Mexico

D.   California

A.   Texas was under constant attack from Mexico and the United States needed to make a provision to protect the Texas border

B.   Texas desired to be annexed into the Union as a slave state

C.   the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico needed to be settled

D.   the US government wanted to control and profit from the distribution of land in Texas

A.   repeal the Missouri Compromise

B.   proclaim slavery issues needed to be decided by popular sovereignty

C.   provide federal funds for a transcontinental railroad to run through Kansas

D.   divide the unorganized western territory into Nebraska and Kansas

A.   They took comfort in knowing the federal government defended slavery.

B.   They took comfort in knowing that slaveholders and non-slaveholders united to fight of the invaders.

C.   They took comfort in knowing no slave flocked to Brown's case.

D.   They took comfort in knowing the federal government defended slavery. They took comfort in knowing no slave flocked to Brown's case. They took comfort in knowing that slaveholders and non-slaveholders united to fight of the invaders.

A.   endorsed the free soil policy of the Republicans

B.   extended the 36/30 line (Missouri Compromise) line all the way to the Pacific Coast

C.   freed Dred and Harriet Scott from slavery because they had lived in a free territory

D.   declared Congress could not ban slavery from the territories because slaves are personal property, thus protected by the U.S. Constitution

A.   His extreme racial views appealed to antislavery southerners.

B.   He was good friends with powerful Democrats.

C.   He supported high tariffs.

D.   He represented the crucial state of Illinois.

A.   might allow slavery in Kansas and Nebraska

B.   strengthened the Missouri Compromise

C.   showed his enthusiastic support of slavery

D.   strengthened his presidential prospects

A.   Northerners and southerners who were morally opposed to slavery

B.   Southerners who could not afford to relocate their plantations to the West

C.   Southerners who had concluded that slavery could not flourish in the West

D.   Northerners who wanted to reserve new lands for white settlers

A.   FALSE

B.   TRUE

A.   fundamental flaws in the electoral college system.

B.   indifference of southern voters.

C.   strength of the new Republican party.

D.   weakness of the Democratic party in the South.

A.   FALSE

B.   TRUE

A.   were a labor union that protested accusations that they knew nothing about politics

B.   were also known as the Peace and Freedom Party

C.   were a group of southerns who formed a secret society that condemned slavery

D.   were a group of American born Protestant natives who opposed the expansion of slavery and protested the immigration of Catholics

A.   He called several ineffective special sessions of Congress.

B.   He urged the Supreme Court to rule on secession before Lincoln took office.

C.   He denied that the southern states had the right to secede from the Union, but did nothing to stop it.

D.   He prodded Congress to beef up the military in case there was a war.