The National Politics of Slavery quiz

Set the stage for a division (line) between slave and free states.

• War of 1812

• North and South views

• Civil War

• Missouri Compromise

The strengthening of Fugitive Slave Laws prior to the Civil War was part of what Congressional agreement.

• Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Dredd Scott decision

• Reconstruction

When "popular sovereignty" is used to decide whether a new state is a slave or free state what does this mean?

• The United States Congress decides

• The State decides

• The Slaves decide

• The Freedmen's Bureau decides

Which Congressional action would violate other previous compromises on the subject of slavery, and fracture the political parties of the United States?

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Dredd Scott decision

What new political party would be born from the chaos created by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, also known as the "Free Soil Party".

• The Republican Party

• The Democrat Party

• The Whig Party

• The Independent Party

What was supposed to end the issue of slavery in the territories but instead basically declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott decision

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

• avoided controversy by ruling that Dred Scott had no right to sue in federal court.

• ruled that slaves could sue in federal court only if their masters allowed them to do so.

• ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories because slaves were private property.

• ruled that a slave that had been transported to a free state or territory was a free citizen of the Untied States.

Legislators tried to keep a _____________ between free states and slaves states in the Senate

• Balance of power
• Peace
• Working relationship
• Professional environment 

What did Uncle Tom’s Cabin convince the North of?

• That it was ok to own a slave

• That you shouldn’t have more than two slaves

• That Uncle Tom had a nice cabin

• That slavery was wrong

This was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1850

• Underground Railroad

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Wilmot Proviso