Chapter 15 Quizzes

Missouri was a

• slave state

• free state

• both of the above

• none of the above

The plan that preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate was the

• North/South Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Maine Compromise

• Slavery Compromise

Who proposed that neither Congress nor local governments had the authority to ban slavery from a territory?

• Daniel Webster

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• Zachary Taylor

President Millard Fillmore persuaded several Whig representatives to not cast votes, or to

• secede.

• become a fugitive

• abstain

• increase sectionalism.

Who bought freedom of enslaved people?

• John Brown

• popular sovereignty

• antislavery groups

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

What was the boundary of slavery?

• 36 degrees 30 minutes N Latitude

• 36 degrees 30 minutes S Latitude

• 30 degrees 36 minutes N Latitude

• 30 degrees 36 minutes S Latitude

Where does the term "Bleeding Kansas" come from?

• Border ruffians

• John Brown

• antislavery groups

• riots between those for and against slavery

The law that required all citizens to help catch runaway enslaved people was the

• Removal Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Runaway Act

• Slave Owners Act

Which act did Sam Houston predict would "convulse the country from Maine to the Rio Grande"?

• Missouri-Maine Act

• Texas-Maine Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

Rival proslavery and antislavery governments existed in

• Missouri

• California

• Texas

• Kansas