US History Chapter 10 Test
The characterization of violent outbreaks in 1856 that occurred in and around Lawrence, Kansas
"Bleeding Kansas"
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was...
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What conductor on the Underground Railroad was known as "Black Moses"?
Harriet Tubman
A New York abolitionist who massacred five pro-slavery settlers in Kansas
John Brown
A bill passed by Congress in 1854 that led to violence...
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In the election of 1848, the major parties were forced to take a stand on slavery because of...
the rise of the Free Soil Party
To secede means:
to break away from
Abolitionists believed that slavery...
was morally wrong and wanted to end it
What event started "Bleeding Kansas"?
Border ruffians raided the anti-slavery town of Lawrence, Kansas
What provision did the Compromise of 1850 include?
California would be admitted as a free state
What was the final northern destination for most people escaping slavery on the Underground Railroad?
Canada
Legislation based on Henry Clay's proposal for concessions by both North and the South...
Compromise of 1850
Legislation that included a strict new fugitive slave law...
Compromise of 1850
What was one outcome of the Compromise of 1850?
Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act
Who was the Free-Soil Party's candidate for president?
Martin Van Buren
Which of these were nullified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Missouri Compromise
A policy that allowed voters in a territory to decide whether or not to allow slavery is called
Popular sovereignty
How was the issue of slavery decided in the territory ceded by Mexico?
Residents exercised popular sovereignty
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin infuriated the south because it:
Spread anti-slavery sentiment in the North
Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
Stephen Douglas
The law that required the return of runaway slaves to their masters...
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 angered northerners because it...
required all citizens to support the slave system
The events of "Bleeding Kansas" can be attributed to:
The competition between opposing political groups
In the late 1840s , what led to the question of whether slavery should expand to the territories?
The results of the Mexican War
An informal network of abolitionists that helped fugitive slaves...
Underground Railroad
A proposed law that prohibited slavery in any lands won from Mexico...
Wilmot Proviso
The proposed law prohibiting slavery in the territories...
Wilmot Proviso
Under the new Fugitive Slave Act passed in 1850...
citizens who helped a runaway slave could be imprisoned
The Fugitive Slave Act angered Northerners because...
it increased federal intervention in the affairs of the states
The Free-Soil Party formed for the main purpose of...
keeping slavery out of the Western territories
