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What did the Wilmot Proviso aim to ban?

• The spread of slavery into new territories

• The return of escaped slaves

• The trade of cotton between the North and South

• The creation of the Republican Party

What was one of the outcomes of the Compromise of 1850?

• California was added as a slave state

• Slavery was eliminated in Washington DC

• A looser fugitive slave law was created

• Slavery was expanded into new territories

What did the Fugitive Slave Act require from northern people?

• To help slaves escape to the North

• To help return escaped slaves and fine or imprison those who aided them

• To ignore the presence of escaped slaves

• To vote for the Republican Party

Why was the Republican Party formed?

• To support the Fugitive Slave Act

• To promote the Wilmot Proviso

• To stop the spread of slavery into new territories

• To enforce stricter trade laws between the North and South

What was the focus of the political cartoon published during the election of 1860?

• The effectiveness of the Fugitive Slave Act

• The unity of the Republican Party

• The growing sectionalism between the North and South

• The spread of slavery into California

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act establish to decide the slavery issue in the Kansas territory?

• State sovereignty

• Popular sovereignty

• Federal sovereignty

• Territorial sovereignty

What term was used to describe the violence between anti and pro-slavery forces in the Kansas territory as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Aggressive Kansas

• Bleeding Kansas

• Violent Kansas

• Divided Kansas

Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act that replaced the Missouri Compromise?

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Stephen Douglas

• Jefferson Davis

What did the armed pro-slavery supporters known as border ruffians do?

• They crossed the border from Kansas to Missouri to escape violence.

• They crossed the border from Missouri to Kansas to support anti-slavery laws.

• They crossed the border from Missouri to Kansas just to vote for slavery.

• They provided peaceful support to the anti-slavery movement in Kansas.

What was the central issue of the Illinois Senate race of 1858?

• The expansion of the railroad system

• The issue of slavery or popular sovereignty

• The election of a new president

• The industrialization of the Midwest