APUSH – Standard 5: 1844-1877

What did the Missouri Compromise seek to accomplish?

• Preserving the Union from the threat of southern secession

• Admitting Missouri to the Union as a free state

• Allowing each new western state to decide the slavery question for itself

• Maintaining the balance between free and slave states

Symbolically important, what was the key argument of the Wilmot Proviso of 1846?

• Each new territory in the land acquired from Mexico should decide the slave issue itself

• Southern states would make no effort to influence the further course of slavery in the territories

• Slavery should never be established in territories acquired from Mexico

• The number of slave and free states should remain the same

The Free-Soil Party advocated which of the following?

• The freedom of settlers within the territories to determine the slave status of their new state

• Passage of the Homestead Act to give free land to all Western settlers

• The exclusion of slavery from any of the new territories

• The policy of giving newly freed enslaved people “40 acres and a mule” following the Civil War

All of the following are true of the Compromise of 1850 except which of the following?

• It provided the admission of California to the Union as a free state.

• It included a tougher fugitive slave law.

• It ended the slave trade in the District of Columbia.

• It prohibited slavery in the lands acquired as a result of the Mexican War.

To what provision of the Compromise of 1850 were abolitionists most opposed?

• The admittance of California as a free state

• The continuation of slavery in Washington, D.C.

• The adoption of popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico

• The passage of a stricter fugitive slave law

Which term refers to the idea that settlers had the right to decide whether slavery would be legal in their territory?

• Nullification

• Sectionalism

• Popular sovereignty

• Southern succession

Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by

• Popular sovereignty

• Making Kansas a free territory and Nebraska a slave territory

• Admitting California, Kansas, and Nebraska to the Union as free states

• The winner of the next presidential election

The Kansas-Nebraska Act created a firestorm of opposition because it did which of the following?

• Legally repealed the doctrine of popular sovereignty in the western territories.

• Mandated the extension of slavery in all western territories except California in return for the creation of the Nebraska and Kansas territories.

• Allowed slavery north of the line agreed upon by the Missouri Compromise, effectively repealing it.

• Prohibited slavery in Kansas and Nebraska as well as confirming the rights of New Mexico and Arizona settlers to prohibit slavery.

Which event would be considered the most direct consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Nat Turner’s Rebellion

• Bleeding Kansas

• Freedom Summer

• John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry

The Republican Party originated in the mid-1850’s as a sectional party committed to which of the following?

• Opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories

• Immediate emancipation of the slaves

• Restriction on immigration

• Acknowledgement of popular sovereignty as the basis for organizing federal territories