Chapter 14 Test Review

This Compromise stated that states must come into the Union as pairs, one free and one slave:

• the Maine Compromise.

• the Missouri Compromise.

• Clay's Compromise.

• Henry's Compromise.

Stephen A. Douglas proposed letting the people decide about slavery through:

• popular sovereignty.

• a Congressional vote.

• the Supreme Court.

• presidential choice.

A person could be fined up to $1,000, or be imprisoned for breaking the law, stated in the:

• Southern Slave Act.

• Owners-Right Act.

• Fugitive Slave Act.

• Runaway Slave Act.

What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system?

• Slavery in the South

• The Moral Dilemma

• The Fractured Spirit

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

What was the first state/ territory to shed blood in a civil conflict over slavery?

• Texas

• Kansas

• California

• Florida

What Supreme Court decision divided the nation by saying slaves could be taken anywhere?

• Fugitive Slave case

• Dred Scott case

• Clay's ruling

• John Brown case

Many Southerners were pleased by the Dred Scott decision because it said _____.

• Dred Scott now would be freed

• slavery was unconstitutional and must be abolished

• as property slaves could be taken anywhere

• slaves were not property and could sue for their freedom

This quotation indicates that some Southerners were _____ about secession.

• overjoyed

• very upset

• annoyed

• embarrassed

Based on the two maps, how did Oregon Territory change between 1850 and 1854?

• It became open to slaveholding.

• It became a free state.

• It doubled in size.

• Part of it was declared Washington territory.

Based on the two maps, which of the following statements is correct?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 abolished slaveholding in United States territories.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the United States.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 decreased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the United States.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased the number of free states in the United States.