A) as a free state if all territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase were admitted as slave states B) as a free state but allowed current slaveholders to keep their slaves C) as a slave state and Maine as a free state D) as a slave state, provided that all enslaved people in Missouri be given their freedom within 10 years
A) whigs B) republicans C) free-soilers D) democrats
A) California would be admitted to the Union as a free state B) all of the above C) the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia D) the New Mexico Territroy would have no restrictions on slavery
A) John C. Calhoun B) Henry Clay C) Daniel Webster D) David Wilmot
A) required citizens to catch runaways B) punished slaveholders C) was supported in the North D) protected enslaved people
A) the president B) the Underground Railroad C) citizens of Kansas and Nebraska D) Congress
A) "The Civil War in Kansas" B) "Bleeding Kansas" C) "The Crime Against Kansas" D) "Marching to Kansas"
A) prohibited in Missouri B) allowed in Missouri C) banned in former Mexican lands D) allowed in former Mexican lands.
A) immigration B) democracy C) slavery D) public education
A) living on free soil did not make an enslaved person free. B) an enslaved person was property. C) all of the above D) an enslaved person was not a citizen, and had no right to bring a lawsuit.
A) Compromise of 1850 B) Kansas-Nebraska Act C) Fugitive Slave Act D) Dred Scott Act
A) Stephen A. Douglas B) John C. Calhoun C) Daniel Webster D) Frederick Douglass
A) Freeport, Illinois B) Harpers Ferry, Virginia C) Fort Sumter, South Carolina D) Richmond, Virginia
A) Jefferson Davis B) Francis Pickens C) Robert E. Lee D) John C. Calhoun
A) Confederate forces B) the South Carolina militia C) Union forces D) National Guard troops
A) recall its representatives in Congress B) organize an armed civilian militia C) secede from the Union D) disobey unpopular federal laws.
A) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state. B) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention. C) Lincolns speech to congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws. D) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
A) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention. B) Lincolns speech to Congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws. C) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state. D) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
A) Lincolns speech to Congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws. B) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state. C) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention. D) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
A) indigio B) cotton C) wheat D) tobacco |