Ch. 15: Toward Civil War - Sections 1 & 2 Review Game

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The main issue in the presidential election of 1844 was the

• annexation of Texas

• annexation of Maine

• annexation of New Mexico

• annexation of Missouri

Who proposed that neither Congress nor local governments had the authority to ban slavery from a territory?

• Daniel Webster

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• Zachary Taylor

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. President Millard Fillmore persuaded several Whig representatives to not cast votes, or to

• secede

• become a fugitive

• abstain

• increase sectionalism

Which party endorsed the Wilmot Proviso?

• Whig

• Free-Soil

• Democratic

• Republican

What did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propose should be replaced by popular sovereignty?

• Missouri–Maine Act

• Texas–Maine Act

• Kansas–Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

Missourians who traveled in armed groups to cross the border and vote in elections became known as

• border ruffians.

• border voters.

• border patrol.

• Missouri voters.

Texas became a state in the year .

• 1945

• 1845
• 1838

• 1803

The stated that slavery should be forbidden in any lands that might be acquired by the United States as the result of the Mexican War.

• Declaration of Texas

• Compromise of 1850.

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

What plan specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico?

• Missouri Compromise

• Clay's Plan

• Mexican Plan

• Wilmot Proviso

Who vowed to "strike terror in the hearts of pro-slavery people"?

• Andrew P. Butler

• Preston Brooks

• Charles Sumner

• John Brown