14.1 "The Search for Compromise" Quizizz Lesson

Multiple Choice

The Wilmot Proviso called for 

• the election of Martin Van Buren.

• banning slavery in any lands the U.S. acquired from Mexico.

• California entering the Union as a slave state.

• a pro-slavery government in Kansas.

Fugitive Slave Act 3:38

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Multiple Choice

What approach did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propose as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Texas-Maine Act

• popular sovereignty

• free soil 

Multiple Choice

Pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote were called

• border patrollers.

• Iowans.

• Missourians.

• border ruffians.

Multiple Choice

In which state did rival pro-slavery and antislavery governments exist at the same time?

• California

• Kansas

• Missouri

• Texas

Multiple Choice

What is the name for a war between citizens of the same country?

• civil war

• cold war

• inter-country war

• undeclared war

Use the previous slides and/or pgs. 491 - 495 to answer the following questions.

​14.1

"The Search for Compromise"

Match

Match the following

• “Bleeding Kansas”

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• 36° 30' North latitude

• John Brown

name used in 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas

put the issue of slavery to popular vote

included the Fugitive Slave Act

the line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states

violent abolitionist

• name used in 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas

• put the issue of slavery to popular vote

• included the Fugitive Slave Act

• the line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states

• violent abolitionist

Multiple Choice

What did the Wilmot Proviso propose for new territories gained from the Mexican War?

• It was a proposal to allow slavery in new territories.

• It was a proposal to have the existing residents of the new territories decide whether to allow slavery.

• It was a proposal to ban slavery in new territories.

• It was a proposal to ban slavery in half of the new territories and allow slavery in the other half.

Multiple Select

Which issues did the Compromise of 1850 address?

Select ALL that apply.

(pg. 492)

• laws discriminating against free African Americans

• slavery in Washington, D.C.

• California’s status as a free or slave state

• a national fugitive slave law

Multiple Select

How did some Northerners disobey the Fugitive Slave Act?

Select ALL that apply.

pgs. 493 - 494

• They passed laws directly contradicting the Fugitive Slave Act.

• They donated money to buy freedom for enslaved people.

• They kept runaways as their own property.

• They refused to convict those accused of breaking the law.

Multiple Choice

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• It allowed the voters in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether to allow slavery.

• It admitted Kansas as a slave state and Nebraska as a free state.

• It prevented existing slaveholders from settling in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

• It preserved the balance between free and slave states in the Senate.