Quiz 5C Review

Label each state/territory that was open to slavery through popular sovereignty by 1854.

a

b

c

d

Kansas

New Mexico

Nebraska

Utah

What was the result of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?

• It led to peace between the North and the South

• He was successful in ending slavery

• It caused further tension between the North and South

• Those in slavery received more rights

Who fought in Kansas to give it the nickname "Bleeding Kansas?"

• Northern abolitionists and Pro-slavery Southerners

• Pioneers and Native Americans

• John Brown in Harper's Ferry

• The United States and the Confederate States of America

​ (a)   allowed the people living the territories to ​ (b)   on whether or not they would allow ​ (c)   instead of going by the ​ (d)   .

• Popular Sovereignty
• vote
• slavery
• Missouri Compromise

Why did the Fugitive Slave Law in the Compromise of 1850 make the North angry?

• It would increase the rights of the enslaved.

• It made it impossible for the enslaved to run away

• It forced Northern states to help capture and return escaped enslaved people

Match the following components of the Compromise of 1850

Groups:

(a) Benefits the South

,

(b) Benefits the North

• Utah and New Mexico get popular sovereignty

• Slave trade ends in DC

• Fugitive Slave Law

• California is a free state

What do you call the belief that it was a God-given right of the U.S. to own all the land from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean?

• Tariff of Abominations

• Manifest Destiny

• Missouri Compromise

• Popular Sovereignty

How did the Mexican-American War lead to debates over slavery?

• Because of the gold rush, California became a slave state

• The Mexican government would only give the U.S. the land if slavery was made legal

• More territories caused arguments over the Missouri Compromise Line

What was the main purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

• To permanently ban slavery in all western territories

• To allow settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether to allow slavery

• To admit Kansas as a slave state and Nebraska as free

• To open all Western territories to slavery through popular sovereignty

Which of these is NOT a part of the outcome of the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• A ruling that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens

• Declared slavery legal in all U.S. territories

• Weakened the idea of popular sovereignty in the territories

• Declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional