8th Grade Ch. 16 American History

What proposal would ban slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico?

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive slave law

• Missouri Compromise

People who opposed slavery left their parties and formed what?

• The Free soil party

• The whigs

• The Anti Slavery party

• The republicans

To officially leave an organization or withdraw means to?

• Succeed

• Secede

• Re-develop

• Reform

Law that said runaway slaves in the North had to be returned to their owners was the?

• Fugitive slave law

• Missouri Compromise

• Run away slave act

• Northern peace law

Proposal that would let the voters of each territory decide whether or not to allow slavery was called?

• Popular Sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska act

• Fugitive slave law

• Border Ruffians

What was the issue with popular sovereignty?

• It was too hard to get passed so it wasn't legal

• People who didn't live in the territory came to vote

• It would create too many slave states

• It would create too many free states

What is a war between citizens of the same country called?

• Civil War

• Brotherly conflict

• Silver War

• Unified Battle

What was the decision in the Dred Scott case?

• He was ruled enslaved and had no right to sue

• He won his freedom after meeting in the supreme court

• He lost but paved the way for other Slaves to sue for their freedom

• He won his freedom after showing proof that he was already free

What did the Dred Scott decision basically say?

• Slavery was on the brink of being illegal

• Nothing could legally stop slavery

• Slavery was legal everywhere

• Slavery was about to get worse

Who won the senate election between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas