USHC Unit 2 Section 5 #1 - Wilson HS

 

What divisive issue dominated the discussion of adding new states to the union?

• Whether new states would be slave or free

• Whether new states should pay taxes

• How much representation new states should have in Congress

• How many people would be allowed to settle in the new states

What was the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular Sovereignty in the Utah and New Mexico territories

• California entering as a free state

• The outlaw of slavery in the Northwest Territories

What was an unintended consequence of the proposed opportunity for popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska?

• Civil War

• Election of Abraham Lincoln

• Bleeding Kansas

• Creation of the Free Soil party

Which of the following was an action by the Untied States to support the idea of Manifest Destiny?

• Enacting a protective tariff to discourage international trade

• Preventing European nations from colonizing Latin American countries

• Placing quotas on the number of immigrants coming to the nation

• Provoking a war with Mexico over territory in Texas

As a result of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which state was admitted as a free state in order to preserve the balance between free and slave states in the Senate?

• California

• Maine

• Missouri

• Kansas

The Missouri Compromise (1820) banned slavery in which area?

• The Louisiana Territory

• The entire United States

• The Oregon Territory

• Washington, D.C.

In the 1850s, why did many runaway slaves go to Canada?

• They feared being drafted into the Northern army

• The Fugitive Slave Act kept them at risk in the United States

• More factory jobs were available in Canada

• Northern abolitionists refused to help fugitive slaves

To please the North, the Compromise of 1850 abolished the slave trade in which area?

• Washington, D.C.

• South

• California

• Mexico

This poster from the 1850s appeared in response to which of the following?

• Passage of the of the fugitive slave law

• Start of the Civil War

• Issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• Enactment of the 13^th Amendment

Which term refers to the idea that settlers had the right to decide whether slavery would be legal in their territory?

• Nullification

• Sectionalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Secession