The Republican Party was organized in response to the
a. defeat of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
b. admittance of California as a slave state.
c. failure of the two major parties to take a stand against slavery.
d. collapse of the Whig Party.
e. adoption of the Bill of Rights.
Question -2-Supporters of the Kansas-Nebraska Act defended the law by claiming that it
a. embraced the principle of popular sovereignty.
b. protected the founders vision of United States as a prosperous nation.
c. was the only way to ensure that the South would eventually become free.
d. bolstered the Missouri Compromise.
e. would end the Fugitive Slave Act.
Question -3-Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in hopes of
a. increasing the number of slave states.
b. increasing the number of free states.
c. quelling Northern fears of new slave states being admitted into the Union.
d. quelling Southern fears of new free states being admitted into the Union.
e. ending South Carolinas threats of secession.
Question -4-What was the effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
a. South Carolina called for immediate secession.
b. It cemented the celebrity of its author, Abraham Lincoln.
c. It effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
d. It placed the nation on track for emancipation within five years.
e. It tipped the balance of free and slave states toward freedom.
Question -5-The Underground Railroad was
a. the first transcontinental railroad.
b. an informal network of secret routes and safe houses run by abolitionists.
c. a nineteenth-century precursor to the modern subway system.
d. the only transportation open to black Americans, whether free or slave.
e. a railroad owned by mining companies.
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