Lesson 23 Vocab Review Modified

A person who flees and tries to escape is called a

• runner
• eloper
• absconder
• fugitive

What were the agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a state in which slavery was illegal. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the trade of enslaved people in Washington, D.C., and creating a stronger law targeting fugitives from slavery?

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was the agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a state that allowed enslavement and Maine was admitted as a state that banned enslavement?

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was the name of the act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories?

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was the name of the Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional?

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was the name of the proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War?

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

What is the name of the United States as one nation united under a single government. During the Civil War, “the Union” came to mean the government and armies of the North?

• The Confederacy

• The Union

• The States

• The U.S.

What was the name of the series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue?

• The Lincoln Arguments

• The Presidential Debates of 1860

• The Lincoln-Douglass Talks

• The Lincoln-Douglass Debates