16.1-16.2 Quiz Review

Brooks beat Sumner with a cane on the Senate floor because

• He didn't vote the way he was asked

• He stole his idea and insulted his relative

• He insulted his relative and spoke against slavery

• He wanted to use his new "whoopin' stick"

Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Henry Clay

• Border Ruffians

The people would vote to be a free or slave state. This idea is known as __________________________.

• People's Vote

• Free Soil

• Pop Culture

• Popular Sovereignty

Lincoln and Douglas debated mostly about

• slavery

• war

• taxes

• railroads

Where did violence between antislavery northerners and proslavery southerners take place before the official start of the Civil War?

• Missouri

• Kansas

• Illinois

• Nebraska

The Dred Scott decision said...

• slaves were not American citizens.

• Dred Scott was free because he was in a free state.

• slavery was illegal.

• the federal government could regulate slavery in new territories.

Which abolitionist wanted to raid the arsenal at Harper's Ferry to arm slaves for a revolt?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

Which state joined as a free state because of the Compromise of 1850?

• California

• Kansas

• Nebraska

• Missouri

Who wrote the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• Stephen Douglas

• John Brown

These laws were used to counter fugitive slave laws in the North.

• personal liberty laws

• Dred Scott laws

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• popular sovereignty