US History Ch15 A Nation Divided

The Wilmot Proviso

• would prohibit slavery in the Mexican Cession.

• would reinstate slavery in the North.

• would allow slaves to be counted in the population of states.

• would increase and improve the rights given to slaves.

Sectionalism is

• the attempt to outline electoral districts.

• taking advantage of loopholes in state laws.

• paying attention to one part of a problem.

• favoring the interests of a region over those of the country.

Popular sovereignty affected slavery by

• not permitting it in unofficial states.

• allowing states or territories to decide whether to permit slavery.

• not allowing slavery anywhere in the country.

• giving the government the last word on slavery.

Henry Clay's contribution in the Compromise of 1850 was

• proposing that California enter the Union as a free state.

• calling for an end to slavery in the southern states.

• asking that slaves states secede from the Union.

• proposing a ban on slavery in the Mexican Cession.

The balance of free and slave states ended in the Union due to

• economic benefits of slave trade.

• the Compromise of 1850.

• the federal government losing power.

The Fugitive Slave Act was horrific to northerners because

• many free African Americans were fleeing to Canada.

• some free African Americans had been captured and sent to the South.

• many fugitive slaves from the South were pouring into northern cities.

• some abolitionists were using violence to get across a message of freedom.

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

• exposed the harsh reality of slave life.

• accused the southern states of not following the laws.

• attacked political figures who supported slavery in the South.

• pushed for the start of the Civil War.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• maintained a balance of slave and free states in the Union.

• divided the Louisiana Purchase into two territories.

• let the federal government decide on slavery.

• reinforced the restriction placed on slavery.

Kansas collapsed into a civil war and many people were killed after

• the raid on Harper's Ferry.

• the Mexican War.

• the Pottawatomie Massacre.

A change that occurred in political parties after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed was

• the Whig Party unified.

• the Republican Party formed.

• the Democratic Party lost the election.

• The Know-Nothing Party lost support.