US Ch. 14 Lesson 1 Quiz: The Search for Compromise

Match the following

• the line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave state

• John Brown

• Included the Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• put the issue of slavery to popular vote

• "Bleeding Kansas"

• violent abolitionist

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Name used in 1856 newspaper story about events in Lawrence, Kanas

• 36° 30' North latitude

The Wilmot Proviso called for

• the election of Martin Van Buren.

• banning slavery in any lands the U.S. acquired from Mexico.

• California entering the Union as a slave state.

• a pro-slavery government in Kansas.

What approach did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propose as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?

• Gadsden Purchase

• Texas-Maine Act

• popular sovereignty

• free soil

Pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote were called

• border patrollers.

• border ruffians.

• Iowans

• Missourians

Which state did rival pro-slavery and antislavery governments exist at the same time?

• California

• Kansas

• Missouri

• Texas

What is the name for a war between citizens of the same country?

• cold war

• inter-country war

• undeclared war

• civil war