Events Leading to the Civil War Test Review

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The Compromise of 1850...

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allowed California to enter as a free state.

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Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen? Members of both groups could be sold in Washington D.C. Slave markets, Unlike freedmen, slaves were welcomed into the gold mines of California, Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law, Unlike slaves, freedmen could vote in territories gained by the Mexican Cession.

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Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law

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Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850? A stricter fugitive slave act was enacted, California was allowed to enter the Union as a free state, The southwest territories would determine their free vs slave status via popular sovereignty

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Slavery was prohibited in all territories gained by the Mexican Cession

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What did the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" do to the relationship between the North and South?

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It fueled tension between the Northern and the Southern states.

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As part of the agreement in the Compromise of 1850, how would slavery in the remaining territory of Utah and New Mexico from the Mexican Cession be decided?

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Popular sovereignty- the people in the territory would vote

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Why was the South against California entering the union?

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California would be a free state and upset the balance of slave and free states.

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What is the fundamental issue behind the Missouri Compromise, and the Compromise of 1850?

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Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

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How did the North respond to the fugitive slave law?

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Many Northerners believed that the law was unfair and started joining the abolitionists movement.

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By what process would the issue of slavery be decided in the Utah and New Mexico territories?

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Popular Sovereignty

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The nickname "Bleeding Kansas" came from

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All of the violence and bloodshed in Kansas that resulted from the Kansas-Nebraska Act