Chapter 16 & 17 - Towards Civil War

What agreement blocked slavery north of the 36°30′N latitude?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Missouri Compromise

When Florida entered the Union as a slave state, what state entered free?

• Maine

• California

• Iowa

• Oregon

Texas had to wait to enter the Union, until what free state entered?

• Iowa

• Oregon

• California

• Maine

What agreement allowed California to enter as a free state, new territories to have no limits on slavery and make slave trade illegal in Washington DC, but not slavery itself?

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Compromise of 1850

What Senator proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• James Buchanan

• Stephan A. Douglas

What allows voters to decide on the issue of slavery in their own individual states?

• popular sovereignty

• suffrage

• Fugitive Slave Act

• secession

In the 1856 Presidential election, those first opposing slavery formed a new party called __________.

• Democrats

• Whigs

• Know Nothing

• Free Soil

Due to the conflict in the Kansas territory newspapers wrote about ______________.

• "Bleeding Kansas"

• "Carnage in Kansas"

• "Sacrificing Kansas"

• "Crazy John Brown"

Who won the Presidential election of 1856?

• John Frémont - Republican

• Millard Fillmore - Know Nothing

• James Buchanan - Democrate

The Dred Scott case ruled...

• slaves were not citizens

• The Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

• popular sovereignty unconstutional

• slaves were just property