Chapter 8 Review

Railway system extending across the continent which would provide growth and settlement in territories across the way....

• C & O Railroad

• Underground Railroad

• Transcontinental railroad

• B & O Railroad

The idea that citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves whether they wanted to permit slavery....

• Popular sovereignty

• Wilmot Proviso

• Secession

• Martial Law

The South’s reaction to the election of Abraham Lincoln was to....

• flee to “Bleeding Kansas”

• repeal the Compromise of 1850

• secede and form the Confederacy

• enlist in mass in the Union Army

A territorial civil war between proslavery and antislavery settlers occurred in....

• Kentucky

• Kansas

• Georgia

• Virginia

The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin....

•   justified slavery by depicting African Americans as being happy in enslavement

• justified slavery by depicting African Americans as heretics

• led to better treatment of enslaved African Americans in the South

• aroused antislavery sentiment in the North

The Freeport Doctrine held that people in the territories could keep slavery out of their state by....

• nullifying the Dred Scott decision

• refusing to pass laws to regulate and enforce slavery

• voting to enter the Union as a free state

• holding an antislavery convention

In 1849 thousands of people came to California because....

• it was a slave state

• it offered cheap land

•     it was a free state

• gold had been discovered there

The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad was....

•   Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Simon Legree

The Kansas-Nebraska Act enraged many people who opposed the extension of slavery because it repealed the....

 

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Lecompton Constitution

• Missouri Compromise

•   Freeport Doctrine

The convention of the Confederate States drafted a constitution containing a provision that....

 

• declared the formation of a federal union

• guaranteed slavery in their territory

• imposed a protective tariff on textiles

• limited the presidency to two terms