Chapter 16 Toward Civil War

A key issue during the 1844 elections was the annexation of which state?

• Illinois

• Texas

• Utah

• Virginia

Which of these was part of the Compromise of 1850?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Ruffian Voting Act

• Runaway Network Act.

• Southern Slave Regulation Act.

Whose votes swung the 1856 election in favor of James Buchanan?

• Northern votes

• Republican votes

• Southern votes

• Whig votes

Douglas lost support in the South due to which doctrine?

• Douglas Debate Doctrine

• Douglas Doctrine

• Freeport Doctrine

• Slaveholders’ Rights Doctrine

The law that called for imprisonment or fines for anyone who helped a fugitive enslaved person was called the

• Missouri Compromise.

• Freeport Doctrine.

• Dred Scott decision.

• Fugitive Slave Act.

Who was the Kentucky senator who proposed a series of Constitutional amendments to save the Union?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• John Calhoun

• John Crittenden

After the Lincoln-Douglas debates, who was elected as an Illinois senator?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Daniel Webster

• Henry Clay

Who led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

• Stephen A. Douglas

Put the issue of slavery to popular vote

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Missouri Compromise

• 36° 30' North Latitude

• The Fugitive Slave Act

Name used in 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Civil War