U.S. History Chapter 8

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional part of the what?

• Compromise of 1850

• fugitive slave act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

The original purpose of the Gadsden Purchase was to?

• balance free and slave states

• create a route for a railroad

• enlarge Kansas and Nebraska

• expand slavery west

The know-nothings were?

• Anti-Catholic and Nativist

• antislavery and Anti-Catholic

• antislavery and nativist

• proslavery and anti-Catholic

Crittenden's compromise proposed to?

• extend the missouri compromise line westward

• prohibit slavery from expanding into the western territories

• prohibit slavery in Nebraska but allow it in Kansas

• require new states to enter the Union in free/slave pairs

The Wilmot proviso, which never passed, would have?

• created a compromise by dividing the territories into free states and slave states

• made it easier for slaveholders to retrieve an enslaved person

• prevented congress from banning slavery in any territory gained from Mexico

• prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico

The confederate constitution stated that each state?

• could decide to halt slavery

• could impose protective tariffs

• would elect its own president

• was independent

What issue did Lincoln challenge Douglas on in their debates?

• Slavery

• popular sovereignty

• states rights

• tariffs

What was the name of the secret route used by slaves to make their way to freedom?

• underground railroad

• kansas-nebraska route

• overland express

• underground trail

Who led the raid on Harper's ferry?

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln

• John C Calhoun

• Alexander Hamilton

David Atchison

• for slavery

• against slavery