US History Unit 8 Pre-Civil War

Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) was criticized by Northern newspapers because it

• limited settlement in those territories

• repealed the 36°30' line of the Missouri Compromise

• upheld the Supreme Court decision in Gibbons v. Ogden

• admitted Maine to the Union as a free state

The principle of popular sovereignty was an important part of the

• Indian Removal Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

In the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, popular sovereignty was proposed as a way to

• allow northern states the power to ban slavery

• deny southern states the legal right to own slaves

• allow settlers in new territories to vote on the issue of slavery

• overturn previous Supreme Court decisions on slavery

In the 1850s, the phrase “Bleeding Kansas” was used to describe clashes between

• proslavery and antislavery groups

• Spanish landowners and new American settlers

• Chinese and Irish railroad workers

• Native American Indians and white settlers

Which statement about the Missouri Compromise (1820) is most accurate?

• Slavery was banned west of the Mississippi River.

• Unorganized territories would be governed by the United States and Great Britain.

• The balance between free and slave states was maintained.

• The 36°30' line formed a new boundary between the United States and Canada.

Which problem did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act attempt to solve?

• extension of slavery into the western territories

• equitable distribution of frontier lands to the owners of small farms

• placement of protective tariffs on foreign imports

• need for internal improvements in transportation

One way that 'Bleeding Kansas,' the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had a similar effect on the United States was that these events

• ended conflict over slavery in the territories

• eased tensions between the North and the South

• contributed to the formation of the Whig Party

• made sectional compromise more difficult

One reason the decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) was so controversial is that it

• strengthened the idea of popular sovereignty

• gave enslaved persons full citizenship

• ruled that Congress had no power to limit slavery in the territories

• supported Harriet Beecher Stowe’s point of view in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt to resolve issues related to

• the protection and spread of slavery

• boundary disputes between the United States and Britain over the Oregon Country

• relations with the Native American Indians of the Great Plains

• the role of the federal government in industrial development

The rapid westward migration caused by the discovery of gold in California led directly to

• the start of the Civil War

• the adoption of the Compromise of 1850

• increased trade through the Panama Canal

• control of the United States Senate by the slave states