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