Quizizz #10 - Cartwright

In the Dred Scot ruling, the Supreme Court declared that Congress had the right to exclude slavery from the western territories.

• True

• False

The positive Northern reaction to John Brown's attack on Harper’s Ferry led many Southerners to believe that secession from the North was their only real option.

• True

• False

In the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Stephen Douglas attempted to create territorial governments on the basis of…

• the Compromise of 1850.

• Free Soil ideology.

• Congressional approval or disapproval of slavery.

• popular sovereignty.

The California Gold Rush resulted in the virtual extermination of California’s Indian peoples, the dispossession of Californio lands, and intense racial animosity towards non-whites in the region.

• True

• False

Wilmot's Proviso would have…

• prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico.

• called for the shipment of blacks to Africa.

• established the guidelines for popular sovereignty.

• abolished slavery in most northern states.

The Free Soil movement supported the exclusion of slavery from the territories because of…

• the precedent established by the Missouri Compromise.

• the abundance of land that was unsuited for plantation agriculture.

• its belief in racial justice.

• racial prejudice and a fear of competing with slave labor.

According to the principle of popular sovereignty…

• the President would determine whether a territory would have slavery.

• settlers would determine whether a territory would have slavery.

• the Senate would determine whether a territory would have slavery.

• the House of Representatives would determine whether a territory would have slavery.

The most controversial component of the Compromise of 1850 was the…

• opening of New Mexico and Utah territories to slavery under popular sovereignty.

• emancipation of slaves in Texas.

• enactment of a new Fugitive Slave Law.

• admission of California as a free state.

Who wrote “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Frederick Douglass

• Henry David Thoreau

• Catherine Beecher

Which American president declared that Mexicans had shed American blood on American soil?

• James Polk

• Andrew Jackson

• Zachary Taylor

• Abraham Lincoln