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Chapter 8: Sectional Conflict Intensifies

Sectional Conflict Intensifies

1
__________ proposed that citizens of each new territory acquired from Mexico should decide whether or not to permit slavery in that territory.
A)The Wilmot Proviso
B)Popular sovereignty
C)Manifest Destiny
D)The Missouri Compromise
2
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?
A)California would be admitted to the Union as a free state.
B)The citizens of Utah and New Mexico would decide the slavery issue themselves.
C)Slavery would be outlawed in the District of Columbia.
D)The Fugitive Slave Act would require federal marshals to assist in the recapture of people who had escaped slavery.
3
According to the Fugitive Slave Act, what could happen to citizens of free states who refused to cooperate in the capture of fugitive slaves?
A)The citizens could be jailed.
B)The citizens could lose their property.
C)The citizens could be enslaved themselves.
D)Nothing would happen, because federal marshals could not enforce cooperation.
4
What motivated Stephen Douglas to organize the Nebraska and Kansas territories?
A)He wanted to promote the spread of slavery westward.
B)He wanted a northern route for the transcontinental railroad.
C)He wanted more Northern representation in the Senate.
D)He wanted to provide Free-soilers new opportunities for settlement.
5
Why did Stephen Douglas’s proposal to organize Nebraska and Kansas enrage Northern leaders?
A)The proposal provided that both states would be slave states.
B)The proposal allowed the states to exercise popular sovereignty.
C)The proposal provided that one state would be a slave state and one state would be free.
D)The proposal repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery to expand westward.
6
How did the Dred Scott decision increase sectional tensions?
A)It upheld the Missouri Compromise.
B)It denied Kansas’s application for statehood.
C)It ruled that the federal government could not prohibit slavery.
D)It supported popular sovereignty in the western territories.
7
Which of the following accurately describes Abraham Lincoln’s position on the slavery issue?
A)His presidential campaign advocated the immediate abolition of slavery.
B)He believed that popular sovereignty would adequately address any conflicts over slavery.
C)Although he was not an abolitionist, he opposed the spread of slavery in the western territories.
D)He proposed a logical solution for free and slave states to coexist in the Union.
8
In the presidential election of 1860, which democratic candidate advocated popular sovereignty?
A)Lincoln
B)Douglas
C)Breckinridge
D)Bell
9
Which event finally triggered the beginning of the secession of the Southern states?
A)Crittenden's Compromise
B)Lincoln’s election as president
C)John Brown's raid
D)the Dred Scott decision
10
Crittenden’s Compromise tried to preserve the Union by proposing that slavery would be __________.
A)abolished only in the western territories
B)allowed to extend throughout all the western territories
C)prohibited south of the Missouri Compromise line and protected north of it
D)preserved where it already existed
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