Chapter 14 Toward Civil War

The Whig party selected Millard Fillmore as a presidential Candidate in 1849

• True

• False

The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between free states and slave 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

Formed by people who opposed slavery

• Freeport Doctrine

• Compromise of 1850

• Free-Soil Party

Arose from the Lincoln Douglass debates

• Freeport Doctrine

• Compromise of 1850

• Free Soil Party

Wrote Civil Disobedience

• Roger B Taney

• Stephen Douglass

• Henry David Thoreau

Wrote the Dred Scott Decision

• John C Calhoun

• Roger B Taney

• Dred Scott

Stephen Douglas's resolution of Henry Clay's slavery plan

• Freeport Doctrine

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso