Quiz 9

What did The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) attempt to do?
a. end fighting between farmers and Native Americans
b. encourage manufacturing in the West
c. increase the number of voters in elections
d. settle disputes over the spread of slavery in the west

• A
• B
• C
• D

Which problem did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act attempt to solve?
a. extension of slavery into western territories
b. equitable distribution of frontier lands to farmers
c. placement of protective tariffs on foreign imports
d. need for internal improvements in transportation

• A
• B
• C
• D

Both the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 settled conflicts between the North and the South over
a. admission of states to the Union
b. Supreme Court decisions
c. presidential election results
d. voting rights

• A
• B
• C
• D

Before the Civil War, the principle of popular sovereignty was proposed to
a. allow states to secede from the Union
b. permit voters to nullify federal laws
c. decide the legalization of slavery in a new state
d. overturn unpopular decisions of the Supreme Court

• A
• B
• C
• D

Which term refers to the idea that settlers had the right to decide whether slavery would be legal in their territory?
a. nullification
b. sectionalism
c. popular sovereignty
d. southern secession

• A
• B
• C
• D

In the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, popular sovereignty was proposed as a way to
a. allow northern states the power to ban slavery
b. deny southern states the legal right to own slaves
c. allow settlers in new territories to vote on the issue of slavery
d. overturn Supreme Court decisions on slavery

• A
• B
• C
• D

The Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) was significant because it
a. allowed slavery in California
b. outlawed slavery in the Southern States
c. upheld the actions of the Underground Railroad
d. ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories

• A
• B
• C
• D

The Dred Scott decision upheld the Southern viewpoint that
a. the power of the Supreme Court does not extend to cases of race
b. Congress could not pass laws depriving people of their property
c. a national vote should be held to decide the legality of slavery
d. the economic well-being of the west depended on slave labor

• A
• B
• C
• D

Which group benefited most directly form the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford(1857)?
a. abolitionists
b. immigrants
c. slave owners
d. enslaved persons

• A
• B
• C
• D

In the 1850s, the phrase “Bleeding Kansas” was used to describe clashes between
a. proslavery and antislavery groups
b. Spanish landowners and new American settlers
c. Chinese and Irish railroad workers
d. Native American Indians and white settlers

• A
• B
• C
• D