Pre-Check on Chapter 14

What were the main parts of the Compromise of 1850?

• all of these

• California would become a free state.

• The rest of the new territory won from Mexico would vote on slavery.

• The Fugitive Slave Act would be harsher.

Under the Compromise of 1850, what would California's status be?

• free state

• state with slavery

• able to vote on status

• not a U.S. state

Under the Compromise of 1850, what would be the status of most of the Mexican territory?

• states vote on whether to have slavery or not

• free states

• states with slavery

• not US states

Why did Northerners think the Fugitive Slave Act was unfair?

• all of these

• no jury trial for the accused

• could be fined or jailed for helping someone escape slavery

• judges paid more to rule against "fugitives"

Kansas-Nebraska Act was different from Missouri Compromise because it ___

• banned slavery north of Missouri border

• let western states vote on slavery

• banned slavery in all of the western area

• allowed slavery in all of the west

Why was Kansas nicknamed "Bleeding Kansas" in the mid-1800s?

• not enough nurses/doctors

• they had a deadly epidemic

• first Civil War battle there

• pro-slavery and anti-slavery people were killing each other