Ch. 16.1 Search for Compromise

Which compromise made in 1820 preserved the balance between slave states and free states?

• Missouri Compromise

• The Great Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Henry Clay's plan for slavery, passed through congress with the help of Stephen A. Douglas.

• Compromise of 1850

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

What state was added as part of the Compromise of 1850?

• California

• Texas

• Missouri

• Kansas

Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Democrat Party

• Election of 1852

Which part of the country would have been pleased with a more effective fugitive slave law in the Compromise of 1850?

• Southerners

• Northerners

• Westerners

What did Northerners do to fight the Fugitive Slave Act?

• gave money to buy freedom for slaves

• refused to convict those who broke the new law

• formed the Underground Railroad

• All of the above

Stephen A. Douglas’s approach to the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska Act was known as

• free soil.

• the Missouri Compromise.

• popular sovereignty.

• states’ rights.

Which term refers to pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote?

• border patrollers

• border ruffians

• Iowans

• Missourians

The fight over slavery in Kansas in the years leading to the Civil War can be best described as what?

• Bleeding Kansas

• Harper's Ferry

• Brown's Raid

• Pottawatomie Massacre

The "caning" of Charles Sumner showed

• how much hatred existed between North and South over slavery

• that slavery must be allowed to spread west

• that Lincoln's election was a mistake

• the effects of Uncle Tom's Cabin