Chapter 15 Section 1 Quiz

The Kansas-Nebraska Act called for

• a ban on slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.

• land in Kansas and Nebraska to be given to escaped slaves.

• the residents of Kansas and Nebraska to vote to decide the issue of slavery.

• the punishment of slaveholders in Kansas for attacks on antislavery settlers.

What was the impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• It angered many Northerners because it described slavery as a positive experience for the slave.

• White Southerners charged that the book did not portray slavery accurately.

• It convinced some Northerners to support the Fugitive Slave Act.

The question of whether California would be admitted to the Union as a free state or a slave state

• was the primary argument in the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

• led Stephen Douglas to introduce a bill in Congress that would divide the state according to the restrictions of the Missouri Compromise.

• was answered by Stephen Douglas in what became known as the Freeport Doctrine.

• led Henry Clay to offer a series of proposals to address all of the current issues of sectional disagreement.

The Fugitive Slave Act was enacted into law

• by Congress, as a part of the Compromise of 1850.

• in free states where special commissioners were paid by state legislatures.

• according to the requirements of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• by Congress, pending approval of state legislatures in free states.

When California applied for statehood, the majority of its residents wanted California to enter the Union

• as a slave state.

• as a free state.

• according to the requirements of the Missouri Compromise.

• as a slave state only if New Mexico was admitted as a free state.

The Wilmot Proviso was an idea proposed to Congress to

• prohibit slavery in all parts of the Mexican Cession.

• reinstate slavery in the northern states.

• allow slaves to be counted in the population of a state.

• increase and improve the rights given to slaves.

How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the United States?

• Slavery would not be permitted in unofficial states.

• States or territories would decide whether to permit slavery.

• Slavery would not be permitted anywhere in the country.

• The federal government would have the last word on slavery.

What was a consequence of the Compromise of 1850?

• The federal government was losing power over the states.

• Economic benefits of the slave trade were destroyed in all parts of the nation.

• The balance between free and slave states ended in the Union.

What did Harriet Beecher Stowe do to influence the debate over slavery?

• pushed for the start of the Civil War

• exposed the harsh reality of slave life

• accused the federal government of obeying the southern states

• attacked political figures who supported slavery in the South

The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the

• prohibition of the practice of slavery in the territories.

• return of the slavery issue between the North and South.

• declaration of the Fugitive Slave Act as unconstitutional.