SSUSH8 Mini Assessment

The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to what is known as “Bleeding Kansas” because: 

• Abolitionists and those in favor of slavery became violent over their beliefs
• Native Americans were determined to stop settlement in the territory
• Ranchers and farmers fought each over the desire of farmers to end the open range
• Miners in towns were lawless 

This poster was MOST likely inspired by which government action?

• the passage of The Fugitive Slave Act
  
• the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  
• the Plessy v. Ferguson decision
  
• the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

According to the idea of popular sovereignty, which of the following would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?

• the Senate

• the President

• the residents of the territory

• the House of Representative

Which treaty ended the United States' war with Mexico in 1848?

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Vera Cruz

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states.  North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, South of the line slavery was _________.

• permitted, prohibited
• prohibited, permitted or allowed
• sometimes prohibited, never allowed
• cheap, expensive

Which territory was gained as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?

• Mexican Cession
• Texas
• Northwest Territory
• Florida

The term means that people in the state would VOTE to make decisions about being a free state or a slave state.

• independent choice
• popular sovereignty
• popular election

This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers 

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas