Chapter 18 American Pageant

The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have

• acquired Cuba as a slave territory..

• . required California to enter the Union as a slave state.

• overturned the Fugitive Slave Law.

• prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War.

The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession

• threatened to split national politics along North-South lines.

• nearly resulted in the return of the territory to Mexico.

• resulted in strong hostility to further expansionism.

• caused clashes between pro-slavery and antislavery settlers in California.

The Free Soil party of 1848 harbored many northerners who stood squarely against slavery in the territories primarily on the grounds that

• further expansion of slavery might break up the union.

• it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise up from wage-earning dependence.

• slavery was a moral evil contrary to American principles.

• slave labor would be unproductive in the West.

According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by

• the people in any given territory

• congressional legislation.

• a Supreme Court decision.

• a national referendum by the Electoral College.

What event that threatened to destroy the longstanding balance of free and slave states in the United States Senate?

• proposed building of a southern transcontinental railroad.

• passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• attempt to acquire Cuba as a slave state.

• discovery of gold in California and its bid for statehood.

Which of the following was not among the issues that concerned southerners in 1849-1850?

• The political balance in the Senate might tip against them.

• That there was a chance that a constitutional amendment would abolish slavery.

• The loss of runaway slaves through the Underground Railroad.

• That the admission of California as a free state might set a precedent for Utah and New Mexico to follow.

How did Harriet Tubman gained fame?

• By her writings as an African American antislavery novelist.

• As a vocal advocate of the Fugitive Slave Law.

• By urging white women to oppose slavery.

• By helping slaves to escape from the south to Canada.

During the debate of 1850, who argued that there was a higher law than the Constitution that compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery from the territories.

• William H. Seward

• Henry Clay

• Daniel Webster

• John C. Calhoun

As part of the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was

• immoral, illegal, and forever banned.

• to be decided by popular sovereignty.

• protected by federal law.

• an issue to be decided by the Supreme Court when they applied to become a state.

One of the most troublesome parts of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning

• the new Fugitive Slave Law.

• slavery in New Mexico and Utah.

• slavery in the District of Columbia.

• the settlement of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute.