Compromises and Conflicts of the 1850s

A person who worked to end slavery was called an ____________.

• Jim Crow

• Secessionist

• Abolitionist

• Emancipator

When states leave or break away from a country, it is called ____________.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Reconstruction

• Secede

• Abolition

The idea that people in a region should vote on whether or not to allow slavery is called ____________.

• Sectionalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Industrialization

• Emancipation

The legal process of removing a government official from office is called ____________.

• Emancipation

• Secession

• Impeach

• Synthesize

After the Civil War, the period of rebuilding the South was known as ____________.

• Reconstruction

• Industrialization

• Sectionalism

• Emancipation

The Compromise of 1850 included the admission of ____________ as a free state.

• Texas

• California

• New Mexico

• Arizona

The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the ____________.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Emancipation Proclamation

The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for the use of ____________ to decide on the issue of slavery.

• Judicial Review

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federal Mandate

• Executive Order

The term "Bleeding Kansas" refers to the violence that erupted over the issue of ____________.

• Industrialization

• Slavery

• Immigration

• Taxation

The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court declared that African Americans were not ____________.

• Citizens

• Slaves

• Property

• Soldiers