16.1 Tensions Over Slavery

Allowing people to vote on slave or free state status is called _____.

• Border Ruffians

• Arsenal

• Fugitives

• Popular Sovereignty

Senator who wrote the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• Daniel Webster

• Stephen Douglas

Pro-slavery supporters from Missouri who flooded into Kansas to sway the vote

• Abolitionists

• Fugitives

• Border Ruffians

• None of the above

A law requiring northerners to assist in the capture and return of runaway slaves is called _____.

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Confederacy

• Propaganda

• Border Rufffians

A senator from South Carolina who did not support compromise over California's statehood.

• Daniel Webster

• Stephen Douglas

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry Clay

Which of the following is NOT a part of the Compromise of 1850?

• Slavery banned in the nation's capital (Washington DC)

• California is a free state

• Northerners must return slaves under the Fugitive Slave Act

• Future territories allowed to vote on slave or free status

What was the significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• More northerners began obeying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• It showed the South how bad slavery really was

• Harriet Beecher Stowe was celebrated for her contribution to 1800s literature

• Northerners saw the moral dilemma of slavery

Which of the following was NOT part of the Missouri Compromise?

• 36 30 Parallel - free states North of the line, slave states south of the line

• Maine is a free state

• Missouri is a slave state

• California is a free state

Who would agree with the quote "States should be given popular sovereignty?"

• Stephen Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Zachary Taylor

What was the impact of Bleeding Kansas?

• Violence was a way to fight opposing views over slavery

• It changed the South to more Democrats than Republican supporters

• John Brown's political career began

• The North and South were able to compromise