UNIT 9: Prelude to War

David Wilmot authored the "Wilmot Proviso" during the Mexican-American War. The Proviso said:

• The U.S. will not take lands from Mexico

• Lands taken from Mexico will be open to slavery

• Lands taken from Mexico will be closed to slavery

This place became a State in 1850 after a compromise

• California

• Texas

• Utah

• Kansas

This place became a State in 1845 leading to a war with Mexico in 1846.

• New Mexico

• Texas

• California

• Oregon

Which territory West of Missouri was re-organized in 1854 to allow voters to decide the slavery question?

• Kansas

• Kentucky

• California

• Oregon

The Missouri Compromise involved drawing a line on the map. What latitude was the line?

• 20% rule

• 36^o30'

• 50/50

• 123

This is the first state to secede from the Union in 1860

• South Carolina

• North Carolina

• Texas

• Mississippi

In exchange for allowing California statehood, what did the North agree to do?

• expand slavery into Ohio

• share the gold from California

• capture & return escaped slaves

• surrender Fort Sumter

Whose essay on 'Civil Disobedience' convinces Northerners not to obey the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Stephen Douglas

• Henry David Thoreau

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

What is the term for the conflict in Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• The Abolitionist War

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Civil War

• The Slave War

Who took his five sons to Kansas to fight and kill pro-slavery farmers?

• Henry David Thoreau

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln