Tensions Over Slavery Test

What law compelled the North to return runaway slaves back to the South?

• Fugitive Dog Acts
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Abolition Act of 1850
• I refuse to answer this question based on the fact I have not studied!

Who was known as the Great Compromiser?

• John C Calhoun
• Daniel Webster
• Henry Clay
• George Washington

Which of the following terms means to withdraw?

• secede
• fugitive
• propaganda
• blockade

Which of the following would be considered a fugitive?

• enslaved person
• runaway slave
• free soiler
• abolitionist

During the debate over the spread of slavery into new territories, some of the leaders promoted the idea that political power belongs to the people. They called it

• the Dred Scott Decision
• the Missouri Compromise
• Popular Sovereignty
• the Compromise of 1850

Who proposed the compromise of 1850?

• Daniel Webster
• Abraham Lincoln
• Henry Clay
• John C. Calhoun

The admission of what state as a free state led to the Compromise of 1850?

• Missouri
• Oregon
• Texas
• California

What overturned the Missouri Compromise's use of the latitude boundary line?

• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT
• CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
• KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT
• CONSOLODATION ACT

Wrote the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin .

• John Brown
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Stephen Douglas
• Roger B Taney

Antislavery settler from Connecticut who led attacks on proslavery settlers in Kansas.

• John Brown

• Douglas Brown

• Stephen Douglas

• Roger B Taney