Chap. 14 Review

1. The goal of the new Federalist Party was to stop the spread of slavery into the western territories.

• True
• False

Roger B. Taney was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who wrote that Dred Scott was not a free man.

• true
• false

Northerners supported John Brown.

• false
• true

Northern reaction to John Brown’s raid shocked and angered southern African Americans.

• true
• false

Why did the admission of California alarm Southerners?

• d. It overturned the Missouri Compromise.
• Southerners feared the slave trade in California would end.

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 shown in the diagram was most likely demanded by southern members of Congress?

• the Fugitive Slave Act
• a ban of the slave trade in the nation’s capital

Why did Brown mount his raid on Harper’s Ferry?

• to raise an army of African Americans and lead them in a revolt
• to free African Americans who had been captured by the U.S. Army

Southerners attacked Fort Sumter because they believed that

•   Lincoln was arming the fort.
• war was inevitable so it was better to start it on their own terms.

California’s request to join the Union in 1850 would have

• given free states an advantage over slave states.
• given slave states an advantage over free states.

How did the South react to Abraham Lincoln’s election as President in 1860?

• To save the Union, Southern leaders agreed to support the new President
• Seven Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.