Unit 5: Westward Expansion Quiz

What was the Missouri Compromise Line?

• 35° 30'

• 36° 30'

• 37° 30'

• 38° 30'

What event led to the region of Kansas being known as 'Bleeding Kansas'?

• Missouri Compromise

• Violence between abolitionists and slave owners

• California becoming a free state

• Gold Rush

What was the purpose of the Compromise of 1850?

• To outlaw the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• To allow slavery in all new territories

• To expand the Missouri Compromise Line

• To abolish the Missouri Compromise Line

Which territory applied for statehood first in the region west of the Mississippi River?

• Nebraska

• Kansas

• Missouri

• California

What was the main cause of the disagreements over slavery in the new territories?

• Economic differences

• Cultural differences

• Political differences

• Geographical differences

What was the outcome of the U.S. and Mexico war from 1846-1848?

• Mexico acquired California

• U.S. acquired California

• California was divided between U.S. and Mexico

• California became independent

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow the people in those territories to decide?

• Whether to join the Union

• Whether to allow slavery through voting

• Whether to become independent

• Whether to join the Confederacy

What was the purpose of the agreement reached in the Missouri Compromise?

• To abolish the 36° 30' line

• To expand slavery into new territories

• To keep a balance of free and slave states

• To create two new territories

What did the 'gold rushers' in California vote for?

• To allow slavery in California

• To make California a free state

• To divide California into slave and free regions

• To become independent from the U.S.

What was the main impact of Westward Expansion on the existing sectionalism?

• It had no impact on sectionalism

• It led to the abolition of slavery

• It worsened the existing sectionalism

• It reduced the disagreements over slavery