The Search for Compromise

Chapter 16: Lesson 1

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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.

Multiple Choice

Who believed that neither Congress nor local governments had the authority to ban slavery from a territory?

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• Zachary Taylor

• Daniel Webster

Multiple Choice

Which of these was part of the Compromise of 1850?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Ruffian Voting Act

• Runaway Network Act.

• Southern Slave Regulation Act.

Multiple Choice

The law that called for imprisonment or fines for anyone who helped a fugitive enslaved person was called the

• Missouri Compromise.

• Freeport Doctrine.

• Dred Scott decision.

• Fugitive Slave Act.

Multiple Choice

What was the illegal network that was established in defiance of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Fugitive Slave Network

• Northern Express

• North Star Line

• Underground Railroad

Multiple Choice

Which of these was the result of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• anger in the North

• compromise on the slavery question

• recognition of states’ rights

• resolution of the slavery question

Multiple Choice

Which position did Franklin Pierce begin holding in 1853?

• editor of The Liberator

• chief justice

• president of the United States

• United States senator

Multiple Choice

What approach did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propose?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Texas-Maine Act

• popular sovereignty

• free soil

Multiple Choice

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

• California

• Kansas

• Missouri

• Texas

Multiple Choice

Who was a violent opponent of slavery?

• Preston Brooks

• John Brown

• Andrew P. Butler

• Charles Sumner

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