Chapter 14 Toward Civil War

The Wilmot Proviso called for a ban on slavery in any territory that the United States acquired from the War with Mexico

• True

• False

The Compromise of 1850 called for poplar sovereignty to decide the slavery issue in the Nebraska Territory. (Replace the underlined term; if needed to make the statement correct.)

• Democratic Party

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso

• Correct as is.

The Confederate States of America were formed by the seceded Southern states.

• True

• False

Who became the first President of the Confederate States of America?

(a)  

• Jefferson Davis
• John Brown
• Abraham Lincoln
• Stephen Douglas

Match the following

• Chief Justice who declared African Americans were not citizens.

• John Brown

• Captured the arsenal at Harpers Ferry

• Roger B. Taney

• The Republican who won the presidency in 1860

• Stephen Douglas

• Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Abraham Lincoln

• Supported popular sovereignty

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

What maintained the balance between the free and slave states in 1820?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which issues did the Compromise of 1850 address? Select ALL that apply.

• laws discriminating against free African Americans

• slaver trade in Washington, D.C.

• California’s status as a free state

• a national fugitive slave law

What was one outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Kansas became a free state, and the state government forced out slaveholders.

• Supporters of and opponents to slavery set up rival governments in Kansas.

• Free African Americans moved to Kansas to establish an antislavery government.

• Supporters of and opponents to slavery agreed to create no laws regulating slavery.

What was the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• It is unconstitutional to allow slavery, because it would violate the federal government’s responsibility to citizens.

• It is unconstitutional to ban slavery, because it would violate the Fourth Amendment’s right to privacy.

• It is unconstitutional to ban slavery, because taking property would violate the Fifth Amendment.

• It is unconstitutional to allow slavery, because it would violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

What was John Brown’s goal for his raid on the Harper’s Ferry arsenal?

• to occupy the arsenal until the federal government freed all enslaved people

• to arm enslaved African Americans to start a revolt against slaveholders

• to move the weapons to the North to prepare for a civil war

• to arm slaveholders to defend their property