Chapter 14: Toward Civil War

The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states.

• True

• False

Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery during the 1848 presidential election.

• True

• False

formed by people who opposed slavery

• Compromise of 1850

• John C. Calhoun

• Free-Soil Party

• Freeport Doctrine

arose from the Lincoln-Douglas debate

• Compromise of 1850

• John C. Calhoun

• Free-Soil Party

• Freeport Doctrine

wrote "Civil Disobedience"

• Compromise of 1850

• John C. Calhoun

• Free-Soil Party

• Henry David Thoreau

believed that neither Congress nor local governments had the authority to ban slavery from a territory

• Compromise of 1850

• John C. Calhoun

• Free-Soil Party

• Henry David Thoreau

Stephen Douglas's resolution of Henry Clay's slavery plan

• Compromise of 1850

• John C. Calhoun

• Free-Soil Party

• Henry David Thoreau

The enforcement of the Fugitive Slave act led to ____________ in the North

• anger in the North.

• compromise on the slavery question.

• recognition of states' rights.

• resolution of the slavery question.

When Franklin Pierce was elected president in 1853, he intended to

• abolish slavery.

• split the nation into two countries.

• enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.

• help fun the Underground Railroad.

James Polk and the Democrats favored the annexation of which state?

• Maine

• Missouri

• North Carolina

• Texas