History Chapter 16 Test: lesson 1

What's the order? - Senator Stephen A. Doulglas proposes popular sovereignty -A vote in Kansas makes slavery legal -Franklin Pierce becomes president -The Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed

2,4,1,3

Who were the border ruffians?

armed pro-slavery supporters who crossed the boarder from Missouri to vote in Kansas

What did the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 allow?

citizens in American territories to decide if slavery would be allowed there.

Free-Soil Party

gained seats in congress

Underground Railroad

helped slaves escape from the South to the North

David Wilmot:

introduced the Wilmot Provisio which would ban slavery in any lands the U.S. might acquire from Mexico; south opposed his plan

What happened in Kansas that led newspapers to write about "Bleeding Kansas." ?

kansas wanted to support slavery and a fight begun because people wanted to go against it and they started a rival government

John C. Calhoun

offered idea saying that neither congress nor any territorial government could ban slavery from a territory or regulate it

the United States acquired new?

territories

after the Mexican war, Americans debated?

whether slavery should be allowed or banned in the territories acquired from Mexico

The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as?

A free state and placed no limits on slavery in other territories. It banned the slave trade in Washington D.C. and called for a new law dealing with the problem of enslaved African Americans who fled from slavery

Who refused to this law?

Northerners, so they worked on the Underground Railroad

What did the Fugitive Slave Act require?

All citizens to help catch runaway African Americans.

What happened when the pro-slavery group won the election in Kansas?

An antislavery group set up a rival government and violence broke out between them.