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US History 111
Chapter 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Northern states exploded in rage over the Kansas-Nebraska Act because? | it repealed the Missouri Compromise |
| The decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case did what? | denied that blacks were citizens |
| The Lincoln-Douglas debates had all the following results except? | causing Douglas' defeat |
| Stephen A. Douglas' Freeport Doctrine did what? | claimed that people of a territory had the lawful means to exclude or introduce slavery |
| The fanatical minister who contributed to Kansas' bleeding and who led the raid at Harper's Ferry was? | John Brown |
| The famous Supreme Court case of 1857, which some say nullified the Compromise of 1820 and 1850, involved a slave named? | Dred Scott |
| The Republican party evolved from the? | Whigs |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Act got authored by? | Stephen Douglas |
| The first Republican candidate for president was? | John Fremont |
| The Whig party dissolved and became the? | Republicans |
| The Know-Nothing or American party descended from the? | Whigs |
| Who opened trade relations with Japan? | Matthew Perry |
| Which purchase added the last piece of territory to the continental United States? | The Gadsden Purchase |