Chapter 4 Vocabulary Test: MS Studies From Territory to Early Statehood, 1798 - 1860

Law that created the Mississippi Territory was based on the __________________, which established the Territory and provided for its government.

• Northwest Ordinance
• Louisiana Purchase
• Constitution of 1817
• Constitution of 1832
• Missouri Compromise

President Jefferson bought an empire just to get a city from Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of France.

• Louisiana Purchase
• Northwest Ordinance
• Constitution of 1817
• Constitution of 1832
• Missouri Compromise

Under which Mississippi law or document was slavery maintained as a legal institution?

• Constitution of 1817
• Northwest Ordinance
• Louisiana Purchase
• Constitution of 1832
• Missouri Compromise

Under which Mississippi law or document was the removal of all property qualifications for public office and for voting?

• Constitution of 1832
• Northwest Ordinance
• Louisiana Purchase
• Constitution of 1817
• Missouri Compromise

The early controversy over slave expansion into the western territories was resolved by the ________________.

• Missouri Compromise
• Northwest Ordinance
• Louisiana Purchase
• Constitution of 1817
• Constitution of 1832

Under the _____________________, which ended the Mexican War, the United States acquired the territory that includes all or part of the present states of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and California.

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Northwest Ordinance
• Louisiana Purchase
• Constitution of 1817
• Constitution of 1832

To prevent any more territory becoming slave states, a congressman from Pennsylvania, introduced a bill to exclude slavery from any of the territory that America might acquire from Mexico.

• Wilmot Proviso
• Northwest Ordinance
• Louisiana Purchase
• Constitution of 1817
• Constitution of 1832

Senator Henry Clay, "the Great Pacifier," arranged a compromise to reduce the sectional animosity that threatened the Union.

• Compromise of 1850
• Northwest Ordinance
• Louisiana Purchase
• Constitution of 1817
• Constitution of 1832

The _______________ created two new territories and specified that the status of slavery in those territories would be determined by popular vote.

• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Northwest Ordinance
• Louisiana Purchase
• Constitution of 1817
• Constitution of 1832

Court case made by a slave who had been taken from a slave state to a free state by his owner who later died in the free state. The slave argued that since his owner had taken him to a free state he should be a free man.

• Dread Scott decision
• Northwest Ordinance
• Louisiana Purchase
• Constitution of 1817
• Constitution of 1832