Review Chapter 8

Polk believed no one would take enslaved persons to the Southwest because

• the Southwest was free territory
• abolitionism was strong in the Southwest
• the climate would not support plantations, which made slavery profitable
• enslaved persons could easily escape to Mexico from farms in the Southwest

In 1849 thousands of people came to California because

• it was a free state
• it offered cheap land
• gold had been discovered there
• it was a slave state

The original purpose of the Gadsden Purchase was to

• balance free and slave states
• expand slavery west
• enlarge Kansas and Nebraksa
• create a route for a railroad

After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, Northerners headed to Kansas because

• the climate and rich soil promised better farming than the North could offer
• they wanted to create an antislavery majority
• jobs working on the transcontinental railroad were available there
• Southern immigrants there were campaigning to secede from the Union

The Know-Nothings were

• antislavery and nativists
• antislavery and anti-Catholic
• anti-Catholic and nativist
• pro-slavery and anti-Catholic

By rejecting the Lecompton Constitution, Kansas voters

• rejected slavery in their state
• applied for statehood as a slave state
• enabled Kansas to become a slave state
• rejected the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Crittenden's Compromise proposed to

• prohibit slavery north of an extended Missouri Compromise line and allow slavery south of it
• prohibit slavery in Nebraska but allow it in Kansas
• prohibit slavery from expanding into the western territories
• require new states to enter the Union in free-slave pairs

In his inaugural speech, President Lincoln

• threatened to attack the seceded states if they did not rejoin the Union
• repeated his commitment not to interfere with slavery where it already existed
• repeated his commitment to abolishing slavery
• threatened to attack if the South did not return the federal forts it had seized

Lincoln wanted to prevent Maryland from seceding because if it did,

• the South would gain control of the strategically important Potomac River
• the South would gain control of important arsenals there
• Washington, D.C. would be surrounded by Confederate territory
• the South would control more territory than the North

The Wilmot Proviso, which never passed, would have

• prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico
• prevented Congress from banning slavery in any territory gained from Mexico
• created a compromise by dividing the territories into free and slave states
• made it easier for slaveholders to retrieve an enslaved person