Chapter 14

The Free Soil Party, like many northerners:

• feared the expansion of slavery in the west would be competition for white labor.
  
• cost Henry Clay the presidency by siphoning off votes from him in New York.
  
• was powerful enough to convince James Polk not to seek reelection.
  
• strongly opposed the Wilmot Proviso but agreed to let it pass as part of a compromise.
  

An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to attract Southern support?

• Transportation in the South
  
• Popular sovereignty
  
• Fugitive Slave Act
  
• Representation in Congress
  

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

• California would enter the Union as a free state.
• The slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C.
  
• The territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada would be created.
  
• A tougher fugitive slave law would be enacted.
  

The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks:

• showed the extreme violence of which northern abolitionists were capable.
  
• actually helped the new Republican Party.
  
• was denounced by most southerners as barbaric.
  
• was unusual because both men were proslavery Democrats.
  

Northerners were most upset by the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision because

• the Court included no Republican Justices
• the decision allowed slavery in the territories
  
• several justices were slave owners
• blacks and whites were not treated equally

Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?

• Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave.
• Members of the abolitionist Republican Party, formed in 1844, insisted on debating slavery.
  
• President John Tyler’s antislavery policies cause a major proslavery backlash led by John C. Calhoun.
• As the 1848 Constitutional deadline for ending the African slave trade drew near, Americans became obsessed with s

One impact of the Mexican-American War was...

• The United States got a large area of land in the Southwest
• Native Americans were given more land for reservations
• France no longer had colonies in North America
• Great Britain gave Alaska to the US

I use to own land in the West. However, after the U.S. won a war against my country in the 1840s people began discriminating against me. As a result, I lost my land.

• Mexican American
• African American
• European Immigrants
• Asian American

Who was the first state to secede?

• Virginia
• South Carolina
• North Carolina
• Georgia

Enforced a strict law saying runaway slaves in the North must be captured and returned to their masters.

• Underground Railroad
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Slave Codes
• Black Codes