Exam 5 Review

This was the set of agreements in 1850 that settled several sectional issues and reinforced the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Pacific Railroad Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

This was the act passed in 1854 that violated the compromise of 1820 and allowed to western territories to vote for slave or free status.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Bleeding Kansas

This is the term used to describe the bloodied fighting between proslavery and antislavery forces in the previously mentioned new territory.

• Missouri Compromise

• Bleeding Nebraska

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Bleeding Kansas

To which party did most southern Whigs migrate after 1854?

• Republican Party

• Democrat Party

• Free Soil Party

• Green Party

Provide one argument proposed by northern pastors against slavery in the 1850s.

• Slavery was immoral

• Slavery hurt the economy

• Slavery was outlawed in Great Britain

• Slavery damaged relationships between the North and South

Provide one argument proposed by southern pastors in support of slavery in the 1850s.

• Slavery helped relationships between the North and South

• Slavery was evil

• The Bible justified slavery

This was the amendment that guaranteed states’ rights not expressly granted to the federal government.

• 10

• 6

• 5

• 1

Provide the two leading parties in America's Third Party System.

• Democrat

• Republican

• Free Soil

• Whig

Which new ‘secret’ American party opposed Irish and German Catholic immigrants, as well as Chinese immigrants in the 1850s.

• Free Soil

• Know Nothings

• Whigs

• Republicans

This was the American party that opposed the expansion of slavery in western territories.

• Free Soil

• Know Nothing

• Whig