Chapter 16 Test Review

Was a compromise that kept the number of slave and free states equal.

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1790

• The Compromise of 1877

The idea of control by the people is called

• sectionalism

• compromise

• popular sovereignty

• right of secession

To remove themselves, from the United States.

• proceed

• succeed

• secede

• inform

Keeping slavery out of the western territories was the main goal of the

• Free Soil party

• Whig party

• Democrat party

• United Democrat party

Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Missouri Compromise

• Emancipation Proclamation

California was admitted to the Union as a free state in the

• Wilmot Proviso

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• Lincoln and Douglas debates

A novel that showed the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Kindred

• Beloved

• Adventures of Huckleberry Fin

Uncle Tom's Cabin was an important book because it

• caused people to support slavery

• told a true story about slavery

• supported southern slave masters

• persuaded many people that slavery was wrong

An act that gave the settlers living in each territory the ability to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.

• Nebraska-Kansas Act

• Missouri-South Carolina Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Mississippi-Alabama Act

An effect of the Dred Scott decision was to

• divide the nation further over slavery

• help the North and the South reach a compromise

• weaken the Supreme Court's power

• increase the Supreme Court's power