History 1301 Final Exam Questions with
Correct Answers
Missouri Compromise - Answer-Missouri: slave state
Maine: free state
36' 30' parallel: boundary for future sates in the Louisiana Purchase (north of the line
free and south of the line slave)
Henry Clay - Answer-Proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
Known as "The Great Compromiser"
Compromise of 1850 - Answer-California admitted as a free state
Mexican Cession divided into Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory: slavery to be
decided by popular sovereignty
Slave trade abolished in the capital
New, stricter fugitive slave law
Texas received $10 million to pay off debt and accepted a new boundary that created
the TX Panhandle
Popular Sovereignty - Answer-People have authority
Fugitive Slave Law - Answer-Threatened even free blacks
Northern resentment led to more support for the Underground Railroad
Ineffective enforcement angered Southerners
Northern states passed personal liberty laws
Personal Liberty Laws - Answer-Passed by state legislatures for bidding people to not
help capture and return runaway slaves
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Answer-Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Told story of Uncle Tom, a kindly old slave, and Eva and how they were mistreated by a
cruel master
Influenced Northerners to become abolitionists
Made Southerners angry
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 - Answer-Created two new territories: Kansas and
Nebraska
Slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty
Overturned part of the Missouri Compromise
Bleeding Kansas - Answer-Refers to the widespread destruction of property and
bloodshed as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
, Free Soilers - Answer-Anti-slavery settlers who rushed into Kansas to prevent it from
becoming slave territory
Dred Scott Decision - Answer-A slave was not a citizen and could not bring suit in the
nation's courts
Living in a free territory did not make a slave free
Citizens could take their property (including slaves) anywhere in the U.S.
The Missouri Compromise (which prohibited slavery) was declared unconstitutional
Sumner/Brooks Incident - Answer-Charles Sumner was a northern senator
Andrew Butler was a southern senator who owned slaves
Preston Brooks was a member of the U.S. House and Butler's nephew
Sumner made vicious remarks about Butler and Brooks beat him with a walking stick
John Brown's Raid - Answer-Brown and others attacked Harper's Ferry, Virginia
He planned to take over the arsenal and give the guns to slaves for a revolt
Was later captured and hanged
Became a martyr to the cause of abolition
Lincoln-Douglas Debates - Answer-1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to
debate issue of slavery, Douglas supported pop-sovereignty, Lincoln asserted that
slavery should not spread to territories. Douglas became Senator but Lincoln emerged
as stronger Presidential candidate
Know Nothing Party - Answer-"American Party"
Anti-negro, anti-foreigner, anti-catholic
Main purpose to sabotage other parties
Republican Party - Answer-Northern party that opposed the spread of slavery in the
territories
Southern States - Answer-Southern states vowed that if a Republican candidate was
elected president they would secede from the Union
Thought the Republican party would try to abolish slavery
Election of 1860 - Answer-Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected and
Southern states began to secede (first was South Carolina)
Fort Sumter - Answer-Federal fort on Charleston Harbor
Attacked by Confederates in April 1861
Robert E. Lee - Answer-Became military commander of Confederate (Southern) forces
Ironclads - Answer-Wooden ships covered in sheets of metal
Ulysses S. Grant - Answer-Commander of Union (Northern) troops
Correct Answers
Missouri Compromise - Answer-Missouri: slave state
Maine: free state
36' 30' parallel: boundary for future sates in the Louisiana Purchase (north of the line
free and south of the line slave)
Henry Clay - Answer-Proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
Known as "The Great Compromiser"
Compromise of 1850 - Answer-California admitted as a free state
Mexican Cession divided into Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory: slavery to be
decided by popular sovereignty
Slave trade abolished in the capital
New, stricter fugitive slave law
Texas received $10 million to pay off debt and accepted a new boundary that created
the TX Panhandle
Popular Sovereignty - Answer-People have authority
Fugitive Slave Law - Answer-Threatened even free blacks
Northern resentment led to more support for the Underground Railroad
Ineffective enforcement angered Southerners
Northern states passed personal liberty laws
Personal Liberty Laws - Answer-Passed by state legislatures for bidding people to not
help capture and return runaway slaves
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Answer-Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Told story of Uncle Tom, a kindly old slave, and Eva and how they were mistreated by a
cruel master
Influenced Northerners to become abolitionists
Made Southerners angry
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 - Answer-Created two new territories: Kansas and
Nebraska
Slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty
Overturned part of the Missouri Compromise
Bleeding Kansas - Answer-Refers to the widespread destruction of property and
bloodshed as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
, Free Soilers - Answer-Anti-slavery settlers who rushed into Kansas to prevent it from
becoming slave territory
Dred Scott Decision - Answer-A slave was not a citizen and could not bring suit in the
nation's courts
Living in a free territory did not make a slave free
Citizens could take their property (including slaves) anywhere in the U.S.
The Missouri Compromise (which prohibited slavery) was declared unconstitutional
Sumner/Brooks Incident - Answer-Charles Sumner was a northern senator
Andrew Butler was a southern senator who owned slaves
Preston Brooks was a member of the U.S. House and Butler's nephew
Sumner made vicious remarks about Butler and Brooks beat him with a walking stick
John Brown's Raid - Answer-Brown and others attacked Harper's Ferry, Virginia
He planned to take over the arsenal and give the guns to slaves for a revolt
Was later captured and hanged
Became a martyr to the cause of abolition
Lincoln-Douglas Debates - Answer-1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to
debate issue of slavery, Douglas supported pop-sovereignty, Lincoln asserted that
slavery should not spread to territories. Douglas became Senator but Lincoln emerged
as stronger Presidential candidate
Know Nothing Party - Answer-"American Party"
Anti-negro, anti-foreigner, anti-catholic
Main purpose to sabotage other parties
Republican Party - Answer-Northern party that opposed the spread of slavery in the
territories
Southern States - Answer-Southern states vowed that if a Republican candidate was
elected president they would secede from the Union
Thought the Republican party would try to abolish slavery
Election of 1860 - Answer-Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected and
Southern states began to secede (first was South Carolina)
Fort Sumter - Answer-Federal fort on Charleston Harbor
Attacked by Confederates in April 1861
Robert E. Lee - Answer-Became military commander of Confederate (Southern) forces
Ironclads - Answer-Wooden ships covered in sheets of metal
Ulysses S. Grant - Answer-Commander of Union (Northern) troops
