S3 Quiz

With the addition of California as a free state, in the Compromise of 1850, this happened for the first time.

• Popular Sovereignty was allowed in the West

• There was more slave states than free states

• There was more free states than slave states

• Slavery expanded westward

Attempt by slave and non slave states to keep the peace and allowed for Popular Sovereignty

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Bleeding Kansas

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1860

An unintended consequence of the proposed opportunity for popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska was

• Civil War

• Bleeding Kansas

• Election of Abraham Lincoln

• Creation of the Free Soil party

Event which led to the South Seceding

• Firing on Fort Sumter

• Election of 1860

• Compromise of 1850

• Abraham Lincoln running for President

What did the Free Soil Party support?

• no expansion of slavery

• giving land to people going west

• farms for slaves

• community gardens for poor people

Between 1850 and 1860, which of the following issues was a major area of conflict in  U.S. politics?

• Debate over tariffs
• expansion of slavery
• U.S. policy of neutrality
• Growth of cities

During the debate over the spread of slavery into new territories, some of the leaders promoted the idea that political power belongs to the people. They called it

• the Dred Scott Decision
• the Missouri Compromise
• Popular Sovereignty
• the Compromise of 1850

Who was the famous abolitionist who published the Liberator?

• Harriet Tubman
• Frederick Douglass 
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Case brought before the Supreme Court involving a slave wanted his freedom: Court decided African Americans CAN'T be citizens and can't sue in federal court.

• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

Lincoln's Reconstruction needed southern states to have at least ________ % of the voting population take a loyalty oath.

• 10

• 30

• 50

• 99