American YAWP Ch 13 2024

What was a major cause of the sectional crisis in the United States?

• The invention of the steam engine

• The expansion of slavery into western territories

• The discovery of gold in California

• The construction of the Erie Canal

What was the Missouri Compromise?

• A law to ban slavery in all new states

• A treaty with Native American tribes

• A deal to admit Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

• An agreement to build a railroad across the United States

Who was John Brown?

• A general in the Civil War

• A president of the United States

• A leader of a rebellion against slavery

• A famous inventor

What was the main goal of the Free Soil Party?

• To promote the expansion of slavery

• To end slavery in the District of Columbia

• To prevent the expansion of slavery into new territories

• To support the annexation of Texas

What did the Fugitive Slave Act require?

• That all states must allow slavery

• That enslaved people be given the right to vote

• That escaped enslaved people be returned to their enslavers

• That slavery be abolished in the North

What was the outcome of the Dred Scott decision?

• It declared that all enslaved people were free

• It ruled that Black Americans could not be citizens

• It allowed women the right to vote

• It ended the Civil War

What was the significance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• It admitted California as a free state

• It allowed territories to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty

• It banned slavery in all territories

• It started the Mexican-American War

Who was Frederick Douglass?

• A leader of the women's rights movement

• A general in the Civil War

• A president of the United States

• A famous abolitionist and former enslaved person

What did the Compromise of 1850 include?

• The election of Abraham Lincoln

• The start of the Civil War

• The end of the Mexican-American War

• The admission of California as a free state

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A network to help enslaved people escape to freedom

• A series of tunnels under the United States

• A law passed by Congress

• A secret train system