Ch. 14 A Nation Divided

The Compromise of 1850 included the addition of

• Maine as a free state

• Missouri as a slave state

• Utah as a slave state

• California as a free state

Why did southerners agree to the Compromise of 1850?

• The inclusion of the Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular Sovereignty to be used in land from Mexico

• Slavery was added to the Constitution

• The Missouri Compromise was overturned

How did the Missouri Compromise affect the nation?

• Created an imbalance in the Senate between slave/free states

• Created a new political party known as the Free-Soil Party

• Maine was added as a slave State

• It briefly solved the issue on new slave/free states

John C. Calhoun proposed which solution to growing tension between Free and Slave states?

• The Wilmot Proviso would solve the problem

• Popular Sovereignty would appease both sides

• Preservation of state interests meant leaving the union

• Letting James T. Kirk speak to both parties

The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to all of the following EXCEPT

• Popular Sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories

• It calmed the country's dispute over slavery

• Violence broke out in Kansas

• the nullification of the Missouri Compromise

How did Uncle Tom's Cabin affect the nation?

• It turned southern slave-owners toward an anti-slavery party

• Harriet Beacher Stowe obtained the right to vote

• The North began backing the abolitionist cause on a moral basis

• An increase in migration to the Kansas territory

The election of 1860 focused on the issue of

• Slavery

• States' Rights

• Lincoln's and Douglas's affection for Mary Todd

• Dilithium Crystals

In 1860, voters from the North backed

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• John C. Breckinridge

• John Bell

Abraham Lincoln decided to follow the Republican Party following which political event?

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Dred Scott Case

• John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

Southern States decided to __________ after Lincoln was elected.

• respect the decision of the voters

• create the know-nothing party in retaliation

• demand a recount of the votes

• secede from the Union and form a new country