AMSCO. Chapter 13 : Union in Peril | Multiple Choice Questions

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Which of the following political groups had its efforts to find a compromise over slavery effectively ended by Taney's decision in the Dred Scott case? (A) Whigs (B) Free-Soil Party (C) Constitution Union Party (D) Northern Democrats

Free-Soil Party

Which of the following acts of Congress was declared unconstitutional in the Dred Scott decision? (A) Missouri Compromise of 1820 (B) Compromise of 1850 (C) Kansas-Nebraska Act (D) Fugitive Slave Law

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Which of the following parts of the Compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the North? (A) Admitting California as a free state (B) Passing a new Fugitive Slave Law (C) Ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C. (D) Using popular sovereignty in new territories

Admitting California as a free state

Which of the following parts of the Compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the South? (A) Admitting California as a free state (B) Passing a new Fugitive Slave Law (C) Ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C. (D) Using popular sovereignty in new territories

Passing a new Fugitive Slave Law

An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas- Nebraska Act to attract Southern support? (A) Transportation in the South (B) Popular sovereignty (C) Fugitive Slave Act (D) Representation in Congress

Popular sovereignty

Which of the following ideas is Douglas appealing to when he says, "whether the people of the territories shall be allowed to do as they please upon the question of slavery"? (A) The Crittenden Compromise (B) Popular sovereignty (C) The right of secession (D) The distinction between a territory and a state

Popular sovereignty

To which politicians is Clay directing the last line of the excerpt? (A) Southerners who were threatening to secede (B) Senators such as Daniel Webster who rejected any compromise (C) Advocates of popular sovereignty (D) The president, Zachary Taylor

Southerners who were threatening to secede

Northerners were most upset by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision because (A) the Court included no Republican Justices (B) the decision allowed slavery in the territories (C) several justices were slave owners (D) blacks and whites were not treated equally

the decision allowed slavery in the territories


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