8th Grade Chapter 16 Test Review

In 1850, northerners were outraged by the new law requiring them to help catch ? slaves.  

• arsenal
• literate
• fugitive
• male

The raid on the ? at Harpers Ferry did not lead to the slave revolt that its leader expected.  

• dock
• arsenal
• North church
• post office

The Senate defeated the ?, which would have banned slavery in lands won from Mexico.  

• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1860
• Missouri Compromise
• Wilmot Proviso

? was an abolitionist whose deeds increased sectional conflict.  

• Dred Scott
• Jefferson Davis
• Wilmot Proviso
• John Brown

The Missouri Compromise resulted in ?

• a ban on slavery in new territories.  
• popular sovereignty in Missouri.  
• the number of slave and free states staying equal.  
• a ban on slavery in Missouri.  

The Compromise of 1850 said that ?

• New Mexico and Utah could decide about slavery by popular sovereignty.  
• California would be admitted as a slave state.  
• slavery would be expanded in Washington, D.C.
• Congress would pass no laws affecting slavery.  

The Kansas-Nebraska Act applied the principle of ?

• states' rights.  
• popular sovereignty.
• universal suffrage.  
• nullification.  

Lincoln did not use force against the Confederacy because he ?

• did not want to risk losing the slave states still in the Union.

• did not have the power to command the armed forces.

• did not think the federal forts in the South were important.

• believed that states had the right to leave the Union.

In 1860, Senator John Crittenden ?

• spoke in favor of the secession of South Carolina.  
• introduced a bill to extend the Missouri Compromise to the Pacific.  
• ran against Lincoln as a Southern Democrat.  
• became president of the Confederate States.  

The Dred Scott Decision angered northerners because it ? 

• said the Republican party was unconstitutional.  
• said John Brown was guilty of murder.  
• upheld the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
• allowed slavery in all the territories.