Unit 10 - Test Review

What 1852 presidential candidate promised to honor the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act and won the election?

• Winfield Scott

• John C. Freemont

• Franklin Pierce

• Henry Clay

This Illinois senator wanted to organize western territory so that a railroad could be built from California to Chicago.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Barak Obama

• Frederick Douglass

• Stephen Douglas

To gain southern support for the railroad, the southern slave states were promised that any land created from the Kansas-Nebraska Act would be open to slavery.

• True

• False

The Kansas-Nebraska Act canceled the Missouri Compromise.

• False

• True

How would the issue of slavery be handled in the Kansas and Nebraska territories?

• Slavery would not be allowed in these territories

• Both territories would be slave states

• The people who live in these territories will decide if they will be slave or free states

What territory did pro-slavery and anti-slavery people move to to ensure it would be a slave or free state?

• Nebraska

• California

• Kansas

• Nevada

There was voter fraud (Cheating) in Kansas and it was estimated that this many people traveled to Kansas from Missouri to vote in favor of slavery.

• 2,000

• 3,000

• 4,000

• 5,000

John Brown slaughtered murdered five of his pro-slavery neighbors after pro-slavery forced attacked and burned Lawrence.

• True

• False

What two men were fighting in this picture?

• Andrew Pickens Butler

• Charles Sumner

• Franklin Pierce

• Preston Brooks

What FOUR groups created the new anti-slavery Republican Party?

• Whigs

• Federalists

• Northern Democrats

• Abolitionists

• Free-Soilers