Unit 13

The Wilmot Proviso was  created to deal with what issue?

• Annexation of Texas
• Territory gained from Mexio
• Runaway slaves
• Popular sovereignty

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

• Missouri
• Oregon
• Texas
• California

This part of the Compromise of 1850 caused the most outrage in the North.

• Fugitive Slave Law(Act)
• California's admission as a free state.
• Outlawing slave trade in D.C.
• Popular sovereignty in lands gained from Mexico.

What was the purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• to admit Kansas as a free state and Nebraska as a slave state

• to allow the citizens to decide if a state would be a free state or a slave state

• to allow border ruffians to vote in Kansas elections to promote slavery

• to negotiate a deal for territory with Native Americans in Oklahoma

In the 1850s, the phrase "Bleeding Kansas" was used to describe clashes between

• pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas Territory

• Native Americans and new American settlers

• Chinese and Irish railroad workers clashing over wages

• freed slaves and white settlers out west fighting over slavery

Which Act overturned the Missouri Compromise and led to bloodshed in Kansas?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Stamp Act

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Fugitive Slave Act

What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

• Dred Scott was set free since he lived in a free state.

• Dred Scott was property and not a citizen.

• Dred Scott's owners were guilty of holding him against his will and were arrested.

• Dred Scott's owners had to pay Dred Scott for work he completed.

What was the immediate cause of the secession of Southern states from the Union prior to the start of the Civil War?

• election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency

• passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown

• decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case

The compromise to settle the question about California's admission to the USA was

• the Compromise of 1850

• The Missouri Compromise

• the Underground Railroad

• the Civil War

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• allowed people in the territories to decide on having slavery or not

• required 36°30' to be the dividing line between slave and free states

• required northerners to help capture runaway slaves

• required new states to stop allowing slavery