US Hist Chapter 10 The Union in Peril

According to the Wilmot Proviso of 1846, in which area was slavery banned? 

•  Southern states 
•  Northern states
•  Louisiana Territory 
• land acquired from Mexico

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 make the South happy?

•  It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves. 
• It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.

What was the Dred Scott decision?

• It abolished the tariff of abominations
• It said that Slaves were property not people
• It stated that a slave was free upon his master's death
• It ended the Fugitive Slave Law

How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the United States?

• Slavery would not be permitted in unofficial states.
• State or territories would decide whether to permit slavery.
• Slavery would not be permitted anywhere in the country.
• The federal government wold have the last word on slavery. 

What was the consequence of the Compromise of 1850?

• The federal government was losing power over the states.
• Divisions between North and South lessened.
• Economic benefits of the slave trade were destroyed in all parts of the Union.
• The balance of free and slave states ended in the Union. 

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book to show the cruelties of slavery. What was it called?

• The Evils of Slavery
• Uncle Tom's Hotel
• Uncle Joe's Cabin
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

President James Buchanan _______________ the secession of the southern states. 

• opposed
• supported

The Kansas-Nebraska Act did away with which of the following:

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• None of the above
• both compromises 

Loyalty to one's region or section rather then the whole country.

• Sectionalism
• Patriotism
• Favoritism
• Nationalism

President of the Confederate States of America

• Abe Lincoln
• Henry Clay
• Roger B. Taney
• Jefferson Davis