8th grade chapter 15

henry clay's compromise became known as

• the Maine Compromise

• the Missouri Compromise

• Clay's Compromise

• Henry's Compromise

southerners justified secession with the theory of

• constitutional rights

• federal rights

• the Union's errors

• States' rights

the main issue in the election of 1844 was the annexation of

• Texas

• Kansas

• Missouri

• California

according to the _______, a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding fugitives

• southern slave act

• owners-right act

• fugitive slave act

• runaway slave act

Douglas's stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slave holders' rights came to be known as

• Douglas's debate

• the slaveholder's rights

• the freeport doctrine

• Douglas's doctrine

who was a Republican candidate in 1856

• Jefferson Davis

• John C. Fremont

• John Breckinridge

• John Crittenden

which party endorsed the Wilmot Proviso

• Whig

• Free-Soil

• Democratic

• Republican

what did Franklin Pierce become in 1853

• senator

• editor of the liberator

• a fugitive

• president

in the congressional election of 1858, the senate race in which state was the center of national attention

• Illinois

• Michigan

• Indiana

• Ohio

which supreme court decision divided the nation even more

• fugitive slave case

• Dred Scott case

• Clay's ruling

• John Brown case