AP US Chapter 14 Quiz

In the Dred Scott Case, the Supreme Court ruled that enslaved people were ___ and could be taken anywhere and still remain enslaved.

• decision

• "Bleeding Kansas"

• free

• property

In the 1860 election ___ was the Republican candidate for President.

• David Atchison

• John Brown

• James Buchanan

• Abraham Lincoln

The territory south of Nebraska became known as ___, because of the violence there.

• Canada

• "Bleeding Kansas"

• Union

• property

This Compromise admitted California as a free state, while allowing the rest of the western territories to decide the issue by popular sovereignty.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Dred Scott Case

• Bleeding Kansas

• Compromise of 1850

An abolitionist novel, it achieved wide popularity, particularly among white readers in the North, by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Dred Scott Case

• Nebraska-Kansas Act

• John Brown's Raid (Harper's Ferry)

This repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed the territories to vote on whether or not they wanted to allow slavery.

• John Brown's Raid (Harper's Ferry)

• Bleeding Kansas

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

Supreme Court case declared that slaves and freed blacks were not citizens of the U.S. and did not have the right to sue in the first place.

• South Carolina Secedes

• Abraham Lincoln

• Bleeding Missouri

• Dred Scott Case

The belief that the people living in a region should decide on key issues.

• bickering

• Harper's Ferry

• popular sovereignty

• Fugitive Slave Act

This was presented in early 1861 to save the Union.

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Crittendon Compromise

What made white Southerners fear that the North would abolish slavery?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Free-Soil Party was formed

• Northerners in Congress tried to pass the Wilmot Proviso

• Bleeding Kansas