Chapter 4: Early Territory to Statehood

The Mississippi Territory was divided into which two states?

• Mississippi and Alabama

• Tennessee and Arkansas

• Georgia and Alabama

• Louisiana and Mississippi

In what year did Mississippi become a state?

• 1800

• 1815

• 1817

• 1820

California became a state because of the discovery of

• Silver

• Copper

• Gold

• Iron

Which road connected the Mississippi River to Nashville?

• Santa Fe Trail

• Natchez Trace

• I-55

• Chisholm Trail

The leader of the Union forces during the John Brown Raid was

• U.S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Zachary Taylor

• Robert E. Lee

What were American anti-slavery forces called?

• Confederates

• Free-birds

• Enslavers

• Abolitionists

In 1820, the U.S. came to an agreement in which any lands north of a certain point (latitude 36 degrees30') would in the future be free states. What was this agreement called?

• Missouri Compromise

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Bleeding Kansas Compromise

• The Maine Compromise

Before the Civil War, when the U.S. was in the process of adding more states to the country. What did the North and South fight over?

• Which areas got the states with the best fur trading.

• Whether the states would become their own states or added to existing states.

• Whether the states would be free or slave state.

• Which areas got the states with the best rivers.

When Stephen Douglas came up with the Kansas-Nebraska Act, he said in the future all states should choose whether they wanted to be slave or free states. What was this idea called?

• Voting

• Popular Sovereignty

• Popular decision

• Equal Sovereigty

After the American Revolution, what was the western boundary of the U.S.?

• Each state had it s own western boundary

• The Pacific Ocean

• There was no specified western boundary

• The Mississippi River