Chapter 16 Toward Civil War

According to the bar graph, who received the fewest electoral votes in the 1860 presidential election?

• Bell

• Lincoln

• Breckenridge

• Douglas

The Whig Party selected Millard Fillmore as a presidential candidate in 1849.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Wilmot Proviso allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.

• TRUE

• FALSE

John C. Calhoun offered a counter proposal to the Wilmot Proviso.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery during the 1848 presidential election.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Name used in 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas

• 36° 30’ North Latitude

• “Bleeding Kansas”

• John Brown

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Put the issue of slavery to popular vote

• 36° 30’ North Latitude

• “Bleeding Kansas”

• John Brown

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Included the Fugitive Slave Act

• 36° 30’ North Latitude

• “Bleeding Kansas”

• John Brown

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states

• 36° 30’ North Latitude

• “Bleeding Kansas”

• John Brown

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act