The Free Soil Party

Buchanan30. In 1848, the Free Soil fellowship platform advocated whole of the following except A free g everyplacenment homesteads for settlers. B internal improvements. C an end to thr either in the District of Columbia. D support of the Wilmot Proviso. E opposition to bondage in the territories. 31. correspond to the principle of popular s everyplaceeignty, the question of thralldom in the territories would be unflinching by A the most popular national leaders. B a Supreme courtyard decision. C congressional legislation. D the vote of the people in any go outn territory. E a national referendum. 2. The key issue for the major parties in the 1848 presidential preference was A expansion. B personalities. C Indian removal. D slavery.E the economy. 33. The Free Soilers condemned slavery because A of moral principles. B it damaged the national economy. C of the legal injury it did to blacks. D it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise to self-employment. E it was the only way they had of combating the cost of the Democratic party. 34. Harriet Tubman gained fame A as an African-American antislavery novelist. B in the gold fields of California. C by urging white women to oppose slavery. D as an advocate of the temporary slave Law. E by helping slaves to escape to Canada. 35. Daniel Websters famed Seventh of edge speech in 1850 endinged in A a shift toward compromise in the northmost. B Senate rejection of a fugitive-slave law. C a movement to draft him for the presidency. D condemnation by blue commercial interests. E charges of accepting bribes. 36. In the debates of 1850, Senator William H. Seward, as a representative of the northerly Young Guard, argued that A can C.Calhouns compromise plan must be adopted to preserve the Union. B Christian legislators must obey Gods moral law. C the Constitution must be obeyed. D compromise must be achieved to preserve the Union. E African-Americans should be granted their own territory. 37. In th e Compromise of 1850, coitus determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was A to be firm by popular sovereignty. B to be banned. C protected by federal law.D to be ignored until either territory applied for admission to statehood. E to be unconquerable by the Mormon Church. 38. The Fugitive Slave Law included all of the following provisions except A denial of fleeing slaves right to testify on their own behalf. B denial of a jury trial to runaway slaves. C a higher payment if officials determined blacks to be runaways. D the requirement that fugitive slaves be returned from Canada. E the penalty of imprisonment for northerners who helped slaves to escape. 39. The preference of 1852 was significant because it A adage the rise of purely national parties. B saw the victory of a pro-South northerner. C marked the return of issues-oriented campaigning. D saw the emergence of an antislavery third party. E marked the end of the Whig party. 40. The prime objective o f unpatterned indispensableness in the 1850s was A Nicaragua. B Panama. C Hawaii. D Cuba. E the Dominican Republic. 41. The prime objective of Manifest Destiny in the 1850s was A Nicaragua. B Panama. C Hawaii.D Cuba. E the Dominican Republic. 42. Stephen A. Douglass plans for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal of the A Northwest Ordinance. B Missouri Compromise. C Compromise of 1850. D Fugitive Slave Act. E Wilmot Proviso. 43. One of Stephen Douglass mistakes in proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was A allowing slavery to rotate into new territory. B underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery. C believing that slavery could not survive in Kansas. D overestimating the protest to the bill. E not securing the transcontinental railway system for the North. 44. The clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed A the division between the House and the Senate over slavery. B the fact that, despite divi sions over slavery, the House of Representatives would unite to expel a member for bad conduct. C the seriousness of semipolitical divisions in the North. D the fact that passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South. E the importance of honor to northerners. 45. summate each candidate in the 1856 election below with the correct party. ___ A. John C. Fremont ___ B. Millard Fillmore ___ C. Martin Van Buren ___ D. James Buchanan 1. Democratic 2. republican 3. Know-Nothing A A-2, B-3, D-1 B A-3, C-1, D-2 C A-1, B-3, C-2 D B-1, C-2, D-3 E A-2, B-3, C-1 46. In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court A held that slaveowners could not take slaves into free territories.B expected to lay to rest the issue of slavery in the territories. C hoped to stimulate further debate on the slavery issue. D back up the concept of popular sovereignty. E reunited the Democratic party. 47. The political career of Abraham Lincoln could dress hat b e described as A marred by early political opportunism. B hurt by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. C hurt by his marriage. D characterized by a speedy rise to power. E slow to get off the ground. 48. As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, A Lincolns national stature was diminished. B Lincoln was elected to the Senate. C Douglas discomfited Lincoln for the Senate. D Illinois rejected the concept of popular sovereignty.E Douglas increased his chances of winning the presidency. 49. Match each presidential candidate in the 1860 election below with his partys position on the slavery question. ___ A. Abraham Lincoln ___ B. Stephen Douglas ___ C. John Breckenridge ___ D. John Bell 1. xtend slavery into the territories 2. ban slavery from the territories 3. preserve the Union by compromise 4. enforce popular sovereignty A A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4 B A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2 C A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3 D A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1 E A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3 50. When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina A waited to see how other southern states would act. B vowed to give their loyalty to Stephen Douglas. C were very upset because they would have to secede from the Union. D rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede. E none of these.