Chapter 16 pgs 426-436

The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to enter the US as a free state which satisfied the North. What part of the compromise was meant to appease the South?

• The slave trade was ended in  Washington, D.C.
• California had to pay taxes to each southern state for 5 years.
• New Mexico was entered as a slave state.
• The Fugitive Slave Act

"So you're the little lady that started this war," was spoken by Lincoln to the author of what controversial book about slavery published in 1852?

• Gone with the Wind
• Century of Dishonor
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Where the Lilies Bloom

She was called the "Moses of her people" for leading over 300 slaves to freedom:

• Harriet Tubman
• Natalie Cole
• Angelina Grimke
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Kansas-Nebraska Act essentially nullified the __ because allowing people to vote on slavery through the Kansas-Nebraska Act meant in theory that slavery could exist in areas that previously had been closed to slavery.

• Great Compromise
• Sumner-Butler Bill
• Missouri Compromise
• Wilmot Proviso

The conflicts that broke out between pro- and anti-slavery groups caused Kansas to be labeled:

• "Crying Kansas"
• "Bleeding Kansas"
• "The Hornet's Nest"
• "The Cyclone Territory"

Who would have agreed the most with the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case of 1857?

• A southern plantation owner
• The President of the U.S.
• A northern industrialist
• A Congressman from California

This person assaulted Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate.

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Preston Brooks
• Stephen Douglas
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To insure a northern route for the transcontinental railroad, Stephen Douglas introduced the _____________.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Personal Liberty Laws
• Nativism

What is meant by the idea of popular sovereignty in this time period?

• the economies of the North and South varied widely
• the people of a territory would vote to allow slavery or not
• Congress would decide the issue of slavery in a new territory
• that cotton would destroy the economy of the South

In 1854, the issue of slavery was inflamed by the

• Wilmot Provision
• Missouri Comprimise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Free-Soil Party