US Foundations Unit 3 Test Review

Slavery was an individual states issue. Which of the following lead to the federal government getting involved with slavery?

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• The Force Bill

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Webster-Ashburton Treary

One of the consequences of the Mexican War was:

• The debate over the expansion of slavery

• The return of Texas to Mexico

• The death of Santa Anna

• The end of Andrew Jackson's presidency

The Missouri Compromise was nullified after the:

• South Carolina Exposition and Protest

• The Compromise of 1833

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Anti-slavery in the North grew stronger after:

• Denmark Vesey Rebellion

• The Webster-AshburtonTreaty

• The release of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

Many northerners opposed passage of Stephen Douglas' proposal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act because_______

• It repealed the time-honored Missouri Compromise

• It provided for a transcontinental railroad along a southern route

• It included the admission of two new slave states to the Union

• Most were abolitionists by the 1850s

What was John Brown's goal at Harpers Ferry?

• to capture the US arsenal
• to burn down the town
• to kill lots of people
• to live there

Who Was John Brown?

• An avid abolitionist
• President of the United States of America
• A rich slave owner
• A southern democrat

What senator wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Henry Clay
• Stephen Douglas
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• John Calhoun

Those who were abolitionists were different than those who were anti-slavery because:

• abolitionists viewed slavery as immoral and wanted and immediate end to it

• abolitionists wanted a gradual form of emancipation

• abolitionists wanted to repatriate slave back to Africa

• abolitionists wanted slaves to have the right to vote

According to the Compromise of 1850, What could New Mexico and Utah territories do?

• They could only join the Union as a free state.
• The people of the territory could decided where to allow slavery.
• They could only join the Union as a slave state.
• They could become their own nation.