QUIZS:Conflicts & Compromises: Pre Civil War (#1-10 Review)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Ended slavery in the South

• Banned slavery in new territories

• Created the Republican Party

• Introduced popular sovereignty to unorganized territories

Judges who sent accused runaway slaves into slavery received $10, but only $5 if he set the fugitive free.

• True

• False

The experiment in letting people decide on voting whether a territory would be a FREE or SLAVE state was never tried again.

• True

• False

The Missouri Compromise applied only to

• the Mexican Cession

• Texas

• the Louisiana Purchase

• the thirteen colonies

An ABOLITIONIST is someone who

• wanted to stop the SPREAD of slavery

• wanted to ban slavery EVERYWHERE

• Wanted the CITIZENS to VOTE on their state being a FREE or SLAVE state

• Wanted the CONGRESS to VOTE on their state being a FREE or SLAVE state

The Fugitive Slave Act

• Banned slavery in Washington D.C.

• Provided safety for escaped slaves

• Forced all Americans to help catch escaped slaves

• Offered free slaves land in the West

Under the Compromise of 1850, it settled a border dispute between Texas and

• New Mexico

• Louisiana

• Oklahoma

• Mexico

Pro-Slavery supporter, Preston Brooks was angry hearing Charles Sumner give a speech, encouraging Congress to help stop the violence in Kansas; he beat Sumner with a

• stick

• cane

• wooden spoon

• bat

Under the Compromise of 1850, California

• became a FREE state

• became a SLAVE state

• VOTED on being a free or slave state

In response to the Anti-Slavery settlers creating their own government, Pro-slavery settlers did ALL of the following EXCEPT...

• burned buildings in the anti-slavery capital, Lawrence

• destroyed homes, newspaper press and a hotel

• burned buildings in the anti-slavery capital, Topeka