MCAP Review #5

This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 

• Fugitive Slave Act 
• Bleeding Kansas
• Missouri Compromise 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

What is the definition of popular sovereignty

• citizens of a territory would vote on whether or not slavery would be permitted

• an idea accepted by many people

• voting to send a representative to Congress

• voting to elect a President

This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers 

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

Who led the anti-slavery fighters in Bleeding Kansas?

• Jim Brown
• John Brown
• Joe Brown
• Phil Brown

Which of the following is not true about John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?

• He wanted to arm slaves to revolt against their masters

• He and his followers attacked a Federal arsenal

• He was killed in the raid from friendly fire by one of his sons

• He was hanged for committing treason

What was ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• the court ruled that Dred Scott was a free man

• the court ruled that slavery was illegal in southern states

• the court ruled that slavery was illegal in the United States

• the court ruled that African Americans-enslaved or free-were not citizens of the United States

What did Dred Scott argue was the reason for his freedom?

• He had lived in free territory.

• His natural rights protected his freedom.

• He had worked enough to earn his freedom

• His owner gave permission for freedom.

The decision made in Dred Scott v. Sanford greatly influenced the election of ______________ becoming President in 1860.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

• James Polk

• Henry Clay

The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

• end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians

• encourage manufacturing in the west

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

During the Election of 1860...

• The Republican party was split over slavery.

• Whigs won easily

• The Democratic party was split over slavery

• Abraham Lincoln won over 80% of the popular vote