Quiz on Historical Events and Figures

The Wilmot Proviso proposed that slavery be outlawed in new parts of the country.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Wilmot Proviso

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

When people favor the interests of one region over those of the entire country, this is called what?

• Abolitionism

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

• Sovereignty

Popular sovereignty allowed voters in new territories to do what?

• Elect governors

• Decide on slavery

• Declare independence

• Choose senators

Who was the author of the antislavery novel *Uncle Tom's Cabin*?

• Harriet Tubman

• Anthony Burns

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Brown

Anthony Burns was arrested and returned to where?

• Virginia

• Boston

• Kansas

• Missouri

Antislavery Northerners formed a third party called what?

• Liberty Party

• Free-Soil Party

• Republican Party

• Whig Party

Who created the plan that led to the Compromise of 1850?

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

• Stephen Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

John C. Calhoun opposed what important compromise?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

What made it a crime to help runaway slaves?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Wilmot Proviso

• Pottawatomie Massacre

Who attacked Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber?

• John Brown

• Preston Brooks

• Stephen Douglas

• Franklin Pierce