Welcome to Week 7 “Crisis of Constitutional Government” Quiz What was the central issue of the sectional crisis? Tariffs Westward expansion Slavery Industrialization True/False: The Founders hoped that slavery would eventually die out, rather than expand. True False The compromise of 1820, which let Maine and Missouri into the Union as free and slave states, respectively, was known by what name? The Great Compromise The Jefferson Compromise The Missouri Compromise None of the above Senator John C. Calhoun was a leading proponent of the idea that slavery was __________. A positive good A terrible evil A public nuisance An economic necessity Passed in 1854, the ________-_______ Act overturned the Missouri Compromise by allowing the western territories to vote on whether they wanted slavery. Missouri-Maine Calhoun-Clay Kansas-Nebraska None of the above Another school of thought on slavery, led by ___________, did not hold that slavery was a positive good, but instead held that it should be a matter of “popular sovereignty” and an extension of “self-government.” John C. Calhoun Stephen Douglas William Lloyd Garrison Abraham Lincoln According to Lincoln in his Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, ______________ don’t stop at state boundaries, even if laws do. Habits of the heart International standards Human beings Moral principles True/False: Abraham Lincoln, arguing against Stephen Douglass, states that people possess the right to do moral wrongs. True False Chief Justice Roger Taney, writing the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, incorrectly argued that the Founders did not believe that human beings of African descent had _________. Natural rights American citizenship Equality with other men All of the above The Lincoln-Douglas Debates occurred when Abraham Lincoln ran for which office? A seat in the U.S. House of Representatives A seat in the U.S. Senate The Presidency The Illinois Governorship Article Four, Section Four of the U.S. Constitution guarantees to each state a “____________ form of government.” Democratic Republican Liberal Free In Federalist 43, James Madison writes, “In proportion as slavery prevails in a state, the government, however democratic in name, must be __________ in fact.” Democratic Republican Aristocratic Oligarchic The secessionists of the nineteenth century differed from the Southerners of the Founding era insofar as they did not believe that ________ was integral to their survival. Slavery Union States’ Rights None of the above The Republican Party was formed in 1854 in opposition to what federal act? The Kansas-Nebraska Act The Fugitive Slave Act The Compromise of 1850 The Compromise of 1820 True/False: The debate over slavery before and during the Civil War was ultimately a debate over whether America would remain true to the principles of the Declaration of Independence. True False