Events Leading to the Civil War (AMSCO Chapter 13)

Which of the following acts of Congress was declared unconstitutional in the Dred Scott decision?

A) Missouri Compromise of 1820; it excluded Albert from Wisconsin and other Northern territories

To which politicians is Clay directing the last line of this excerpt? "I am for staying within the Union and fighting for my rights."

A) Southerns who were threatening to secede; thinks its stupid to secede over slavery

Which of the following parts of the Compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the North?

A) admitting California as a free state; gave the North more political power and the political debate deepened the commitment of many Northerners to saving the Union from secession

Which of the following parts of the Compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the South?

B) passing a new Fugitive Slave Law; liked how enforced it was, likely guaranteed they would get slaves back

An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas- Nebraska Act to attract Southern support?

B) popular sovereignty; Douglas' bill only put railroads in the North- where he lived- but gave the southern appeal of popular sovereignty which was denied to them in the Missouri Compromise

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"?

B) popular sovereignty; this idea let the people in the new territory vote for whether they would allow slavery- both the north and the south kept sending their people over to be the majority- "bleeding Kansas"

Northerners were most upset by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision because...

B) the decision allowed slavery in the territories; they were trying to support popular sovereignty but couldn't if they had no say

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?

D) northern democrats; was a proslavery decision, was decided that all western territories were open to slavery, northerners such as Douglas found an impossible task of supporting popular sovereignty without repudiating the Dred Scott decision