WorksheetsSearch For Compromise
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
A person who runs away from the law is?
A piker
A marathon runner
A Fugitive
A barrel slip
When a state leaves the Union it's called?
Succession
Segregation
Integration
Secede
Armed pro-slavery supporters who crossed the border to vote IN Kansas?
Border Patrol
Border Ruffians
U S Customs
U S Immigrations
Fighting between citizens of the same country is called?
Civil Disobedience
Strife section
Civil War
Ethnic cleansing
How did Congress settle whether California would be a slave or free state?
They did not let California come in to the U.S.
They passed the Compromise of 1850
They made California pay a high tariff to be a state
They let California have slaves
Who was the Free Soil party's presidential candidate in 1848?
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Which senator said that Congress could NOT ban slavery in any territory?
John C. Calhoun
Senator Douglas
Henry Clay
Martin Van Buren
What did Mexico and the United States fight for?
Access to the Rio Grande river
Access to the Mississippi shipping lanes
Where the border between Mexico and Texas would be
They fought over the Gulf of Mexico fishing rights
Which Compromise kept a balance in the Senate between Slave and Free states?
Missouri Compromise
The Land Act Compromise
The Great Northern debate
The Secession Compromise
Which proposed law would ban slavery in any lands taken from Mexico?
The Charter Act
The Great Slavery Provision
The Wilmot Proviso
The Territory Debate law
What was the Free Soil Party's slogan?
"Free Slaves Now!"
"Free Men Unite"
"Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor and Free Men"
"Free States, Free People and Free Country"
Where was the slave trade banned to try to calm the North and the South?
St. Louis, Missouri
Washington D.C.
Richmond, Virginia
Sacramento, California
What was the name of the lands west of Missouri called?
The California/Nevada Territories
The Western Ridge Territories
Kansas and Nebraska Terriotories
Missouri Compromise
Which abolitionist led a raid on pro-slavery supporters in Kansas?
William Dawes
Ichabod Crane
John Browne
Frederick Douglas
what was the raid on a small town in Kansas that ended up with five slavery supporters dead called?
Kansas Action
Bleeding Kansas
Suffering Kansas
Payback
What was the line that divided that slavery states from the non-slavery sates called?
The Divisive Line
The Mason Dixon Line
The Polarized Zone
The Abolitionist Line
In 1856 How many governments did Kansas end up with?
One
Two
Which senator proposed a compromise that would ban the slave trade in Washington D.C.?
John C. Calhoun
Stephen A. Douglas
Henry Clay
James E.Mason
Which territory was divided into two territories and their citizens voted whether to be a slave or a free state?
The Oregon Territory
The Ohio Territory
The Confederate Territory
The Nebraska Territory
What does Popular Sovereignty mean?
Only Popular people can vote
The popular vote decides who wins the election
The People Rule
Majority always wins
