Week 9 Vocabulary

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

• A proposal to prohibit slavery in any new territory acquired by the United States from Mexico following the Mexican-American War

• A law allowing slavery in all new territories

• A treaty ending the Mexican-American War

• A proposal to expand slavery into new territories

What does Popular Sovereignty refer to?

• The belief that the government should control all aspects of life

• The belief that the people give the power and legitimacy to the government

• The idea that only elected officials have power

• The concept of a monarchy

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?

• It abolished slavery in all states

• It repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed for popular sovereignty

• It established new trade routes

• It created a new constitution for the United States

What was Bleeding Kansas?

• A peaceful protest against slavery

• A violent guerrilla war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas

• A diplomatic negotiation between states

• A series of debates in Congress

What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• To abolish slavery in the northern states

• To make it the federal government's responsibility to find and return escaped slaves

• To provide education for freed slaves

• To establish new territories for escaped slaves

What was the Free Soil Party's main goal?

• To support the expansion of slavery

• To oppose the extension of slavery into western territories

• To promote industrialization

• To support the monarchy

What is Sectionalism associated with?

• The belief in a unified national identity

• The belief that different regions of a country have unique characteristics and values

• The idea of global governance

• The concept of a single world culture

What was the Dred Scott Decision?

• A ruling that granted citizenship to all enslaved people

• A U.S. Supreme Court decision stating that enslaved people were not citizens

• A law that abolished slavery

• A treaty with Native American tribes

What was the Cotton Kingdom?

• A region in the Deep South dominated by cotton plantations

• A new political party

• A series of laws regulating cotton trade

• A movement to abolish slavery

What was the Compromise of 1850?

• A single law passed to end the Civil War

• A series of five laws addressing slavery and territorial expansion

• A treaty with Mexico

• A new constitution for the United States