Ch 14 & 15 Assessment

What was the goal of the Free-Soil Party who had the slogan, "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men" ? The was a major debate in America at that time.

• wanted to maintain the unpaid labor system of the South

• wanted to be given Southern farms too

• wanted Western territories to be free not slave.

Henry Clay proposed ___________ to admit California as a free state and allow slavery in all other western territories. This in effect overturned the 1820 Missouri Compromise ban on slavery north of the 36 30 line of latitude.

• The California Act

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

This was very controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 and angered Northern abolitionists - anyone who helped a person escaping enslavement could be fined or imprisoned according to the...

• Compromise of 1849

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular Sovreignty Act

The Fugitive Slave Law allowed what activity that resulted in rising support for abolitionsim.

• Southerns to come take people from free northern states to slavery in the South

• Abolitionists were given a free pass to help people escape slavery

• Free Soilers were given free land in the west

• Northerns to go into Southern states and free people

This plan, proposed by Stephen A. Douglas, would give territories joining the Union as new states the opportunity to vote on whether or not they would be free or slave states. (called "popular sovereignty").

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

This was a mini-pre Civil War conflict fought between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas territory:

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

Antislavery Whigs and Democrats joined the Free-Soilers to create a new party, the _______, also known as the the party of the North (not the same platform as today's modern political parties).

• Republican Party

• Democratic Party

• Independent Party

• Green Party

The Democratic party at that time (different in platform from modern political parties), which supported slavery, became known as the party of the...

• South

• North

• East

• West

The Supreme Court case, Dred Scott v. Sandford, clarified that no territory could disallow a Southerner from keeping people enslaved. The ruling made a critical declaration stating that _________________which led to increased public support for abolishing slavery.

• enslaved people were considered property and not citizens.

• Slavery was unconstitutional and esnlaved people should be free

• Slavery could continue in the South but any enslaved person brought to a free territory would be free.

The main topic of the Lincoln v Douglass debates during the Illinois Senate race of 1858 was ______ and sparked a lot of national attention in the newspapers.

• the economy

• the military

• slavery

• foreign relations