Topic 8 Review

Which responses indicate parts of the Missouri Compromise of 1850? Choose the three correct answers.

• Any land in the Louisiana Territory would allow slavery

• slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah

• Fugitive slave laws

• Missouri would be admitted as a slave state

• California would be admitted as a free state

How did popular sovereignty provide a solution for the issue of slavery?

• It gave people of a territory to make the decision about slavery

• It gave the elected governors of each state the power to determine slavery allowance

• It allowed slavery in territories where the majority of residents ow

• Missouri would be admitted as a slave state

What the the majority of northerners' reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act?

• they appreciated that they were able to work with southerners

• they felt it extended slavery to the north and western territories

• they felt this new law made them part of the slave system by forcing them to help catch runaways

• they felt it wouldn't impact them because many didn't own slaves

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act propose?

• Kansas would be admitted as a slave state and Nebraska a free state

• Slavery in both territories would be determined by popular sovereignty

• Both would be free territories because they were above the Missouri Compromise line

• They would both be admitted as slave territories because they would pledge to be in the Confederacy

Define treason

• a warehouse of weapons and ammunition

• the act of letting the people determine their government

• a person who gives up their life for their beliefs

• actions against one's country

What did Bleeding Kansas and the violence in the Senate foreshadow?

• there would be violence over the issue of slavery

• the residents of Kansas would be willing to fight for representation in the Senate

• territories would not be given a voice in the Senate

• Kansas would become the site of the first battle of the Civil War

What were the major components of the Dred Scott decision? Choose the two correct answers.

• enslaved people were not citizens and should be considered property

• Congress can't outlaw slavery in any U.S. territory

• Congress has the power to create court systems to for fugitive slave trials

• it would be illegal for enslaved people to learn to read and write

Which options were advantage the South had at the start of the Civil War? Choose two responses.

• they had more miles of railroad to transport supplies

• they had more land and food to provide soldiers

• they were defending their way of life

• they knew the landscape because the fighting was occurring on their land

What was Lincoln's view on the issue of states' rights?

• he believed that states did not have the right to secede

• with a valid reason, the states had the right to secede

• the only way states could secede is if they used violence

• states could not secede because the issue of slavery was not a valid reason

What was the southerners' and Jefferson Davis's view on state's rights and secession.

• they did not want western territories added and felt only the present states should have representation in Congress

• Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, they thought it was unconstitutional giving them the right to secede

• They felt that the new president would not protect slavery and that their states had the authority to secede to protect their way of life

• They did not think they had the right to secede, so they needed to use force to establish their own confederation