Chapter 10: The Union in Peril

What was the system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states?

• Underground Railroad
• Underground Subway
• Above ground lightrail
• Underground Bus

What is the formal withdrawl of a state from the Union?

• secession
• drop out
• peace out
• session

A few violent outbursts in this territory, such as the Sack of Lawrence and the Pottowatomie Massacre, led to the nickname, "Bleeding ?"

• Kansas
• Arkansas
• Alabama
• Kentucky

What grants the right of residents in a territory to vote for or against slavery?

• popular sovereignty
• monopoly
• oligarchy
• monarchy

What forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed that they would be given a trial?

• Personal Liberty Laws
• 6th Amendment
• Fugitive Slave Law
• Slave codes

What was a series of measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free and slave states?

• Compromise of 1850
• Civil War
• Webster's Compromise
• Compromise of 1820

Who became the President of the Confederate States of America, the Confederacy?

• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• Stephan A. Douglas
• Ulysses S. Grant

Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephan Douglas in the 1858 Senate race for what state? 

• Illinois
• Wyoming
• Colorado
• Oklahoma

What is the term when one favors native-born Americans over immigrants?

• Nativism
• Immigrant
• Foreigner
• Emmigrant

Who tried to create a slave uprising at Harpers Ferry, VA but failed and was tried for treason?

• John Brown
• Henry Clay
• Stephan A. Douglas
• General Beauregaurd