Chapter 16-1

What was the primary purpose of the Compromise of 1850? (Select all that apply)

• Make California a free state

• To start the Civil War

• To expand the United States

• To limit slavery

What was the main goal of the Border Ruffians?

• To establish a new government

• To promote abolition

• To influence Kansas to become a slave state

• To stop the slave trade

What was the main cause of the Civil War?

• Slavery

• Taxation

• Trade disputes

• Territorial expansion

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A type of train system

• A government program

• A military operation

• A network of secret routes and safe houses

Southerners did not support the Wilmot Proviso because it ....

• banned slavery in northern states

• banned slavery in all states

• banned slavery in lands acquired by Mexico

• banned secession by any state

What line marked the division between slave and non-slave states?

• 30th parallel

• 46th parallel

• 40th parallel

• 36th parallel

Which term describes breaking away from a political union?

• Secession

• Civil War

• Unification

• Colonization

The slogan associated with the Free-Soil Party?

• Free Land, Free Labor, Free Rights
• Free Soil, Equal Rights, Equal Labor
• Free Men, Equal Opportunity, Equal Land
• Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

Under which law could a person be fined or imprisoned for helping a runaway slave?

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Thirteenth Amendment
• Civil Rights Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

What is the name for a war between citizens of the same country?

• cold war

• revolutionary war

• civil war

• thumb war