Chapter 15

What did Franklin Pierce become in 1853?

• senator

• fugitive

• editor of The Liberator

• president

What was the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery?

• Kansas

• South Carolina

• Texas

• Missouri

Who was not a presidential candidate in 1860?

• John C. Calhoun

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Bell

• John Breckinridge

What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more?

• Fugitive Slave case

• Clay's ruling

• Dred Scott case

• John Brown case

Henry Clay's compromise became known as

• the Maine Compromise

• Clay's Compromise

• the Missouri Compromise

• Henry's Compromise

What plan specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico?

• Missouri Compromise

• Mexican Plan

• Clay's Plan

• Wilmot Proviso

Southerners justified secession with the theory of

• constitutional rights

• the Union's errors

• federal rights

• states' rights

Who was the senator from Kentucky who tried to save the Union by proposing a last-minute compromise?

• John Calhoun

• John Bell

• Henry Clay

• John Crittenden

Enforcement of the Fugitive Act led to

• compromise

• recognition of Southerners' rights

• more anger in the North

• an end to the struggle

In the congressional election of 1858, the Senate race in what state was the center of national attention?

• Illinois

• Michigan

• Indiana

• Ohio