Chapter 16: Toward Civil War

What state was added as part of the Compromise of 1850?

• California
• Texas
• Missouri
• Kansas

Who was the Supreme Court Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case? 

• Roger Taney
• John Crittenden
• John Marshall
• Stephen A. Douglas

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• John Bell
• Preston Brooks

Which party was first to take a stance on slavery?

• Free Soil
• Democrat
• Whig
• Republican

The first state to secede was

• South Carolina
• Virginia
• Alabama
• Mississippi

A last-ditch effort to save the Union was the 

• Crittenden Plan
• Lincoln Compromise
• Wilmot Proviso
• resupply of Ft. Sumter

The idea that escaped enslave people could still be owned in the north (if caught) was supported by what decision?

• Freeport Doctrine

• Monroe Doctrine

• Dred Scott decision

• secession

Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Democrat Party
• Election of 1852

What led to the creation of the Republican Party?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• "The Caning"
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

Who won the Election of 1856 because he was the most "unobjectionable?

• Franklin Pierce
• James Buchanan
• John C. Fremont
• Zachary Taylor