Chapter 16 Test

The Whig party selected Millard Fillmore as a presidential candidate in 1849.

• True

• False

The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states?

• True

• False

The Wilmot Proviso allowed California to enter as a free state.

• True

• False

John C. Calhoun offered a counter proposal to the Wilmot Proviso.

• True

• False

Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery duirng the 1848 presidental election.

• True

• False

Zachary Tayor

• wrote Civil Disobedience

• won the presidential election of 1848

• wrote the Dred Scot Decision

The Freeport Doctrine

• arose from the Lincoln Douglas debates

• freed the slaves

• stopped the slavery ban

Henry David Thoreau

• wrote the National Anthem

• wrote the Dred Scott decision

• wrote Civil Disobedience

Roger B. Taney

• wrote the National Anthem

• wrote the Dred Scott decision

• wrote Civil Disobedience

The compromise of 1850

• arose from the Lincoln Douglas debates

• was Stephen Douglas's resolution to Henry Clay's slavery plan