Chapter 14 Quiz SS- Hansberry

What was the goal of the Free Soil Party?

• to allow slavery in all states

• to keep slavery out of the new territories and states

• to abolish slavery in the south

What were the two effects after California was admitted as a free state?

• slave states had the majority of the control in the Senate

• Congress agreed that all states could be slave states

• free states now had a majority in the Senate and the South threatened to leave the union

Under the Fugitive Slave Act...

• citizens of free states were allowed to help the slaves runaway

• U.S. Marshals could force ordinary citizens to help them capture runaway slaves and prosecute them if they didn't

• there were cats to help track down slaves

What was the first state to formally secede from the union?

• Florida

• South Carolina

• North Carolina

• Virginia

The Confederate States of America became the name of the 11 states that seceded from the union.

• True

• False

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

In the North, freed slaves were given free land to get them started on a new life.

• True

• False

What was a significant effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• There was peace among all of the states

• The people would vote on the idea of slavery in the new state

• Stephen Douglas would become the new Senator in Illinois

What did Kansas become after the raid and John Brown's murderous response?

• Crying Kansas

• Hate-Filled Kansas

• Bleeding Kansas

What was the Supreme Court's final decision for Dredd Scott ?

• He was free and would move to free territory

• He was a slave. He was property and did not have citizen rights.