Chapter 16

What compromise kept the balance of free states and slave states?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

What was the policy that would ban slavery in states included in the Mexican Cession?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Wilmot Proviso

• Free Soil Policy

Which these ideas was included in the Compromise of 1850?

• California would become a free state

• Kansas would become a slave state

• Slavery would be banned in Washington D.C.

The principle that states could decide if they wanted to be a free state or slave state

• individual rights

• republicanism

• popular sovereignty

Stated that anyone who helped a slave could be fined or imprisoned

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Freeport Doctrine

• Dred Scott Decision

Who protested the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Northerners

• Southerners

• People from Kansas

Who was the abolitionist that led a raid in Harper's Ferry Virginia?

• Zachary Taylor

• James Brown

• John Brown

• Franklin Pierce

Which political party became the dominant party of the North?

• Republican

• Democratic

• Whigs

Who was the judge for the Dred Scott case? The case that decided slaves were not citizens and therefore had no rights.

• Roger Taney

• Zachary Taylor

• Franklin Pierce

Which presidential election caused the South to Secede?

• Election of 1860 (Abraham Lincoln)

• Election of 1856 (James Buchanan)

• Election of 1854

  (Franklin Pierce)