U.S. History-Chapter 8 Test

Which of the following was not a provision in the Compromise of 1850?

• There was a strict fugitive slave law.

• It ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C..

• It allowed California to enter the Union as a slave state.

• It divided the Mexican Cession into the New Mexico and Utah territories.

What term refers to the right of people to create their government?

• constitutionality

• republicanism

• democracy

• popular sovereignty

What political party's objective was to keep slavery out of the western territories?

• Republican

• Know-Nothing

• Free-Soil

• Democrat

What was stated in the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Captured slaves would be jailed for life.

• In northern states, it was permissible for citizens to give aid and comfort to escaped slaves.

• Captured slaves would be immediately put to death.

• All citizens were required to help catch African Americans trying to escape slavery.

In which agreement would the state of Missouri be admitted as a slave state and Maine introduced as a free state?

• Maine Compromise

• Clay Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Slavery Legislation Agreement

Why did northerners oppose allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state?

• Southern states would be given greater opportunities to create better profits than northern states.

• It would give slave states more land area and therefore more resources than free states.

• It would give the southern states a majority in the Senate.

• Northerners wanted to benefit from the taxes that would be charged to live in California.

Why did northerners oppose allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state?

• Southern states would be given greater opportunities to create better profits than northern states.

• It would give slave states more land area and therefore more resources than free states.

• It would give the southern states a majority in the Senate.

• Northerners wanted to benefit from the taxes that would be charged to live in California.

What did border Ruffians do that influenced state elections in Kansas?

• They bribed Kansas voters to elect candidates that supported slavery.

• They crossed the state boundary of Missouri to illegally vote in the Kansas elections.

• They physically threatened voters to vote for a candidate who was against slavery.

• They reentered voting lines in order to vote more than once.

Which abolitionist was responsible for murdering five proslavery settlers in Kansas?

• Charles Sumner

• Preston Brooks

• John Brown

• Andrew Butler

What was stated in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Settlers living in each territory would be able to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.

• Kansas would enter the Union as a free state and Nebraska would enter as a slave state.

• Congress would vote in order to make a determination of whether or not both states would enter the Union as free or slave states.

• Nebraska would enter the Union as a slave state and Nebraska would enter as a free state.