DN Study Guide

Who was a violent opponent of slavery?

• John Brown
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Abraham Lincoln

What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?

• slavery
• secession
• the election of 1860
• the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Frederick Douglass
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Harriet Tubman

This law required Americans to help capture accused runaway slaves if deputized by U.S. Marshalls.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case
• Fugitive Slave Act

What does the term popular sovereignty describe?

• The right of the people to vote on laws
• The right of the federal government to nullify laws
• Abolitionism
• The vote to end the Civil War

The Compromise of 1850 outlawed slave auctions in

• Washington DC
• Illinois
• New Orleans
• Maryland

Which of the following quotes would have been said from someone apart of the Free Soil Party?

• Slavery should exist not just in the South but all over the West
• Slavery should be abolished in the entire U.S.
• Slavery should be a topic decided on by the states and people in the states
• Slavery should only exist in the South and not in the West

What did California’s application for statehood, the Texas annexation, the Mexican Cession, and the Missouri Compromise share in common?

• They were all related to popular sovereignty.
• Congress decided these places would be free territories.
• Congress decided these places would be slave territories.
• They brought up the issue of whether the west would be free or slave territory.

The Wilmot Proviso attempted to

• Open up the west to slavery.
• Ban slavery in the Mexican Cession.
• Finish building the Underground Railroad.
• Build a railroad from Illinois to the Pacific coast.

The Compromise of 1850 did all of the following except

• End the slave trade in D.C.
• Allow California to enter the Union as a free state
• Eliminate fugitive slave laws
• Created popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession