Chapter 11 Test "American Cultures I"

Suggested that slavery should be banned in all territories acquired from Mexico.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Wilmot Proviso

• Extending Missouri Compromise Line.

Elected as first president of the Confederacy.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

• Jefferson Davis

Supporter of Popular Sovereignty to decide slavery issues in individual states.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• David Wilmot

• Stephen Douglas

A captured runaway slave in Boston that was returned to slavery and then released when the people of Boston paid for his freedom.

• Anthony Burns

• John Brown

• Josiah Henson

• Jefferson Davis

Led raid's on Pottawatomie Creek and Harper's Ferry and was eventually hanged.

• Stephen Douglas

• Roger Taney

• John Brown

Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, choose 2 correct answers.

• People illegally cross Kansas border to vote.

• Turns Kansas into a peaceful place.

• John Brown massacres 5 people.

• Violence erupts in Oregon.

What was the effect of the Fugitive Slave Act in the North?

• Added help in the capture of fugitive slaves.

• Increased the antislavery movement.

• Increased the sympathy for Southern slave owners.

Known as the great compromiser, he suggested the Compromise of 1850.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• John Brown

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sued for his freedom, but was denied by the mostly southern judges on the Supreme Court.

• Anthony Burns

• Dred Scott

• Josiah Henson

• OJ Simpson

What percentage of the votes did Abraham Lincoln receive in the election of 1860.

• 10%

• 50%

• 40%

• 80%