Ch. 7.1-3 Test

___________________ ____________________ was the idea that the citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not.

____________________ Whigs were Northern Whigs who had ties to Northern cloth manufacturers and voted with Southern Whigs to nominate Zachary Taylor for president.

Because of his role in promoting the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and solving the nullification crisis in 1833, _________________ _____________ was nicknamed "The Great Compromiser."

The dissolution of the Union began with the secession of the state of __________________ _______________________.

The Confederacy chose ____________________ ________________ as its president.

Southerners believed that the Constitution gave them the right to retrieve an enslaved person who fled across state lines.

• True
• False

The book Uncle Tom's Cabin depicted African Americans as real people imprisoned in dreadful circumstances.

• True
• False

"Border ruffians" were armed settlers from Nebraska who attacked the town of Lawrence, Kansas, a stronghold of antislavery settlers.

• True
• False

Dred Scott was a Missouri slaveholder who had taken an enslaved man to live in free territory before returning with him to Missouri.

• True
• False

Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 without Southern support.

• True
• False