Chapter 17 Quiz

Most Controversies centered around slavery in___________?

• the deep South

• textile mills

• the new territories

• Canada

What event led to a national crisis in 1849-1850?

• Oregon application for statehood

• California's application for statehood

• John Brown's raid

• passage of the New Mexico Act

All of these changes came from the Compromise of 1850 except.

• California as a free state

• slave trading in Washington D.C.

• New Mexico and Utah decided by popular sovereignty

• returning fugitive slaves

This abolitionist book was written to show the harshness of slavery __________________.

• Tom Sawyer

• Gone with the Wind

• Huck Finn

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed slavery to be determined through ________________?

• the Federal government

• Popular Sovereignty

• the Dred Scott Case

• Missouri Compromise

John Brown and his followers killed pro-slavery settler's in _______?

• Kansas

• Missouri

• Nebraska

• Alabama

The fight over popular sovereignty to decide to have slaves in the Kansas Territory is known as ____________?

• Popular Kansas

• Flowing Kansas

• Kansas Freedom

• Bleeding Kansas

In 1859 John Brown and his followers occupied a ___________ in West Virginia?

• federal armory

• federal court

• Catholic church

• Harbor office

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860

• True

• False

In a debate at Freeport, Illinois, Lincoln asked Douglass what he thought about the Dred Scott Decision.

• True

• False