Ch. 16 Test

Indicate whether the statement is true or false: The Whig Party selected Millard Fillmore as a presidential candidate in 1849.

• True

• False

Indicate whether the statement is true or false: The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states.

• True

• False

Indicate whether the statement is true or false: The Wilmot Proviso allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.

• True

• False

Indicate whether the statement is true or false: John C. Calhoun offered a counter proposal to the Wilmot Proviso.

• True

• False

Indicate whether the statement is true or false: Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery during the 1848 presidential election.

• True

• False

Match each item with the correct statement

• wrote the Dred Scott decision

• C. Henry David Thoreau

• wrote "Civil Disobedience"

• A. Compromise of 1850

• Douglas' resol. of Clay's slavery plan

• D. Roger B. Taney

• arose from l=Lincoln-Douglas debates

• B. Freeport Doctrine

• won the 1848 election

• E. Zachary Taylor

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Which of these was the result of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• A. anger in the North

• B. compromise on the slavery question

• C. recognition of states' rights

• D. resolution of the slavery question

Which position did Franklin Pierce begin holding in 1853?

• editor of The Liberator

• chief justice

• president of the United States

• United States senator

James Polk and the Democrats favored the annexation of which state?

• Maine

• Missouri

• North Carolina

• Texas

What does abstain mean?

• to create a network

• to leave the Union

• to not vote

• to vote