Which geographic area was the reason for settlement of the west expanding rapidly in the 1850s?

What was popular sovereignty?

• the idea that the people of Texas had the right to join the United States

• The idea that Americans wanted slavery confined to the South

• the idea that citizens of each territory should decide whether to have slavery there.

• the idea that Congress had the right to determine whether a territory would slavery

What was the unintended result of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• It further enraged Northerners against the institution of slavery.

• It allowed Southern plantation owners to recoup damages for enslaved people who successfully escaped.

• It allowed the country to reach a compromise that would keep them from war.

• It provided funding to fugitive slave catchers to help the Southern economy.

What caused the crisis in Kansas that resulted in two competing state governments?

• Congress's decision to delay statehood for Kansas until a compromise could be reached

• the decision to allow residents to vote on whether Kansas would be a slave or free state

• the admission of Kansas into the Union without mentioning slavery

• Missouri's desire to annex Kansas as part of it own state

Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted what reaction in the Southern states?

• They annexed much of the Western territories.

• They protested in Congress.

• They held their own election for president.

• They seceded from the Union.

Which of the following words means that a person places the interests of a small area over the interests of the entire country? (a)  

• Sectionalism
• Nationalism
• Popular Sovereignty
• Secession

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court...

What was the secret organization that helped slaves to escape to freedom? (a)  

• Underground Railroad
• American Temperance Union
• Seneca Falls Convention
• National Road

Four part compromise arranged by Henry Clay that strengthened enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, banned slave trade in DC, admitted California as a free state, and implemented popular sovereignty to decide upon the issue of slavery in Utah and New Mexico (a)  

• Missouri Compromise
• Wilmot Proviso
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850

How does the expansion of the US lead to the Civil War? (Mult. answers)

• most of the new states were in the north

• Trying to keep the balance of free & slave states

• The question of slavery expanding as territory become states

• nobody was able to compromise