Ch.16 Toward Civil War

What was the Wilmot Proviso of 1846?

• successful attempt to ban slavery in the South

• failed attempt to ban slavery in lands gained from Mexico

• a compromise on slavery in the territories

• brought peace to Kansas & Nebraska territories

Which was a gain for the North as a result of the Compromise of 1850?

• freedom of certain slaves

• weakened laws regarding runaway slaves

• laws could be made regarding slaves in the territories

• California admitted as a free state & slavery abolished in D.C.

Because of the imbalance of power in the Senate, what event created the need for compromise?

• California's admission as a free state

• creation of Kansas & Nebraska territories

• annexation of Texas

• Texas admitted as a slave state

Which was a gain for the south as a result of the Compromise of 1850?

• adding more representatives in Congress

• more electoral votes

• Congress agreed to not pass slave laws & stronger fugitive slave laws

• Texas added as a slave state

An effect of the Fugitive Slave Act was:

• pulled Northerners into the Abolition movement

• made Southerners understand the nature of slavery

• enabled Northerners to challenge slave-owners who captured runaway slaves

• ended abolition movement in the North

The Kansas-Nebraska Act attempted to solve the slavery question in the territories by:

• having Congress make separate laws to ban or allow slavery

• asking the President to make a declaration of freedom

• enforcing the Missouri Compromise Line of 1820

• allowing people to decide through popular-soverneignty

An effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was:

• compormise was worked out in the territories

• violence broke out between pro & antislavery forces referred to as "Bleeding Kansas"

• a ban on slavery was put in place

• some southern states considered secession

Which was an event that created tensions between the North & South?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• immigration into the cities

• invention of the cotton gin

• canals & railroads

Which is related to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Bleeding Kansas

Which is related to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• popular-sovereignty

• California admitted as a free state

• slavery viewed as a threat to wage earners

• fugitive slave laws enacted