US Ch. 14 Test: Towards Civil War

The Whig party selected Millard Fillmore as a presidential candidate in 1849.

• True

• False

The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states.

• True

• False

The Wilmot Proviso allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.

• True

• False

John C. Calhoun offered a counter proposal to the Wilmot Proviso.

• True

• False

Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery during the 1848 presidential election..

• True

• False

The enforcement of the Fugitive Slave act led to

• anger in the North.

• compromise on the slavery question.

• recognition of states' rights.

• resolution of the slavery question.

When Franklin Pierce was elected president in 1853, he intended to

• abolish slavery.

• split the nation into two countries.

• enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.

• help fun the Underground Railroad.

James Polk and the Democrats favored the annexation of which state?

• Maine

• Missouri

• North Carolina

• Texas

How did some Whigs vote on the Compromise of 1850?

• They voted for it.

• They voted against it.

• They abstained from voting.

• They protested the vote.

Who was a violent opponent of slavery?

• Preston Brooks

• John Brown

• Andrew P. Butler

• Charles Sumner