Chap 6 Section 1 and 2 quiz

Name the individual who came up with the idea of popular sovereignty

• Abe Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• Lewis Cass

• John C. Calhoun

Who won the election of 1848?

• Andrew Jackson

• Zachary Taylor

• Abe Lincoln

• Henry Clay

Popular Sovereignty is the idea to let people of a state vote on the issue of allowing slavery in the state

• True

• False

Which individual first proposed the Compromise of 1850

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

• Andrew Jackson

• Stephen Douglas

Who rewrote the Compromise of 1850 into several smaller bills?

• Henry Clay

• John C Calhoun

• Andrew Jackson

• Stephen Douglas

All of these are part of the Compromise of 1850 except

• Popular soverergnty

• California admitted as a slave state

• Slave trade would be ended in Washington D.C.

• Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act

What book is considered by some historians to be the cause of the civil war

• War and Peace

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Scarlet Letter

• The Jungle

Who proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act

• Abe Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• Daniel Webster

• Stephen Douglas

What political party started by being opposed to further expansion of slavery

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Free soil

• Whigs

This Supreme Court decision stated that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and void.

• Plessy vs Ferguson

• Brown vs Board of Education

• Marbury vs Madison

• Dred Scott vs Sandford