US History I Final Review

What part of the Compromise of 1850 upset the North the most?

• Allowing California in as a free state
• Ending the slave trade in Washington DC
• using popular sovereignty to decide Utah and New Mexico
• the stricter Fugitive Slave Act

What state would be added to the Union as a free state according to the Compromise of 1850

• Oregon
• California
• Michigan
• Iowa

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

The Supreme Court ruling that declared that slaves were considered property and went wherever their owners went no matter if that was free state or a slave state.

• Fugitive Slave Act
• The Dred Scott Decision
• Jim Crow Law
• Slave Owner Rights

Who was the leader in killing five pro slavery setllers?

• John Brown
• Henry Clay
• John Black
• John Maroon

Border Ruffians from Missouri voted in the first territorial election because:

• they intended to move to Kansas Territory in the future.  
• they wanted to see if they could get away with illegally voting in another state.  
• they wanted the proslavery forces to take control of Kansas Territory.  
• they did not know where the border of Missouri was located.  

Democrat Stephen A. Douglas sponsored what became known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act because ______.

• He opposed the expansion of slavery into western territories
• He was a southerner
• He was an abolitionist
• He supported construction of a transcontinental railroad

The abolitionists worked to

• give women the right to vote.
  
• grow as much cotton as possible.
  
• make slavery popular in every state.
  
• put an end to slavery.

This was a Novel that showed how evil slavery was.  It helped the anti-slavery movement grow stronger

• Of Mice and Men
• Fugitives
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Life of a Slave

What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• That slavery diminished the national character.
• That African American rights were protected by the Constitution.
• That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens
• That slavery should be abolished by executive order