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