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.   Northern delegates walked out

B.   Delegates nominated Jefferson Davis for the presidency

C.   Delegates nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency

D.   Southern delegates walked out

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

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

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

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

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

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

C.   he needed southern support to pass his legislation.

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

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

B.   Stricter interstate commerce regulations

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

D.   Whether or not Congress should raise taxes on imports

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

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

C.   initiated the first orderly implementation of popular sovereignty.

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

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

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

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

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

A.   California

B.   Arizona

C.   New Mexico

D.   Utah

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

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

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

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

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

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

C.   divide the unorganized western territory into Nebraska and Kansas

D.   repeal the Missouri Compromise

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

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

C.   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.

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

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

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

C.   endorsed the free soil policy of the Republicans

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

A.   He supported high tariffs.

B.   His extreme racial views appealed to antislavery southerners.

C.   He was good friends with powerful Democrats.

D.   He represented the crucial state of Illinois.

A.   strengthened his presidential prospects

B.   strengthened the Missouri Compromise

C.   might allow slavery in Kansas and Nebraska

D.   showed his enthusiastic support of slavery

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

B.   Northerners and southerners who were morally opposed to slavery

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.   weakness of the Democratic party in the South.

B.   indifference of southern voters.

C.   fundamental flaws in the electoral college system.

D.   strength of the new Republican party.

A.   FALSE

B.   TRUE

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

B.   were also known as the Peace and Freedom Party

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

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

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

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

C.   He called several ineffective special sessions of Congress.

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