Review-Ch 18 A Divided Nation

What did the population boom California experienced in the 1850's allow it to do?

• Annex Baja California
• Collect more taxes than any other state
• Pass laws against Slavery
• Quickly apply for statehood

What 1850 law outraged many Northerners?

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Connecticut Compromise

• Popular Sovereignty Act

• The Dred Scott Case

Which of the following became a serious problem in the United States in the 1840s?

• Nationalism
• Capitalism
• Compromision
• Sectionalism

What was the result of the Missouri compromise?

• A ban on slavery in new territories
• The number of slave and free states staying equal
• Popular sovereignty in Missouri
• A ban on slavery in Missouri

What did the Compromise of 1850 state?

• Congress would pass no laws affecting slavery
• Slavery would be banned in Washington, D. C.
• California would be admitted as a slave state
• Oregon could decide the slavery question by popular sovereignty

What did the fugitive slave law state?

• Escape slaves could be arrested even in areas were slavery was illegal.
• The fugitive slave law of 1796 was unconstitutional
• The Underground Railroad was legal
• Blacks and territories admitted after 1850 were free

Which of the following statements about uncle Tom’s cabin is NOT true?

• It represented slavery as a moral problem
• It increased anger over the fugitive slave law
• It was based on a true story
• It became one of the most influential books in American History

What principle did the Kansas-Nebraska act apply?

• States’ rights
• Nullification
• Popular Sovereignty
• Universal Suffrage

John Brown attacked the arsenal at Harpers Ferry because he wanted to…

• Force the South to secede
• Start a slave revolt
• Keep slavery out of Kansas
• Prevent Lincoln’s election

Why was Lincoln able to win the election of 1860?

• Abolitionists had become the majority
• Free Blacks in the North supported him
• The democratic party split in two
• Stephen Douglas supported Lincoln