Chapter 10 Test "The Union in Peril"

The _______ was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War (1846-48).

• Wilmot Proviso

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union is known as

• confederacy.

• compromise.

• secession.

• popular sovereignty.

The Compromise of 1850 was supported by

• Clay and Calhoun.

• Clay and Webster.

• Calhoun and Webster but not Clay.

• Clay, Calhoun, and Webster.

One of the most active conductors on the Underground Railroad was

• Harriet Beecher Stowe.

• Harriet Tubman.

• Horace Greeley.

• Abraham Lincoln.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by

• Horace Greeley.

• John Brown.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe.

• Charlotte Forten.

Members of the Know-Nothing Party were known for all of the following except their

• use of passwords.

• use of secret handshakes.

• support of the rights of immigrants.

• belief in nativism.

One of the founders of the Republican Party was

• Franklin Pierce.

• Horace Greeley.

• James Buchanan.

• Millard Fillmore.

The topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was

• the Missouri Compromise.

• secession.

• the Wilmot Proviso.

• slavery in the territories.

The Dred Scott decision did all of the following except

• please Southerners.

• rule that slaves did not have rights.

• declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.

• guarantee that slavery would not be allowed in future states.

The Confederacy included all of the following states except

• Maryland.

• Texas.

• Alabama.

• South Carolina.