Chapter 14 Reading Check

Front

What event highlighted the violent clash between pro and antislavery factions in the 1850s? Options: The Missouri Compromise, The Caning of Sumner, The Dred Scott Decision, The Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Back

The Caning of Sumner

Front

The Wilmot Proviso was introduced in ____.

Back

1846

Front

What was the main issue that consumed Congress in 1850 related to the Mexican Cession?

Back

The expansion of slavery into new territories

Front

Who was the elder statesman for the proslavery position during the debate over California's admission as a free state?

Back

John C. Calhoun

Front

Fill in the blank: The Fugitive Slave Act, as advocated by the South, provided federal money or 'bounties' to ________.

Back

slave-catchers

Front

What was one of the main outcomes of the Compromise of 1850?

Back

California was admitted as a free state.

Front

Fill in the blank: The Fugitive Slave Act showed that slaveholders were willing to use the power of the _______ to bend people in other states to their will.

Back

federal government

Front

Who was Harriet Tubman and what was she known for?

Back

A leader in the Underground Railroad.

Front

The novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written by ________ and it highlighted the evils of slavery.

Back

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Front

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was significant because it ______.

Back

led to the formation of the Republican Party