Quiz on Unit 11

Question 1

Battleground for proslavery and antislavery forces

Answer 1

Kansas Territory

Question 2

The “Great Compromiser,” senator from Kentucky

Answer 2

Henry Clay

Question 3

Led raid against Harper’s Ferry arsenal

Answer 3

John Brown

Question 4

Letting settlers in a territory decide for themselves whether or not to admit slavery.

Answer 4

Popular sovereignty

Question 5

Made vicious speech against slave inerests

Answer 5

Charles Sumner

Question 6

Senator from Illinois, debated Lincoln

Answer 6

Stephen Douglas

Question 7

Republican presidential candidate in 1856

Answer 7

John C. Fremont

Question 8

A proposed ban on slavery in territory acquired from Mexico

Answer 8

Wilmot Proviso

Question 9

Senator from South Carolina, defended slavery

Answer 9

John C. Calhoun

Question 10

An expression of U.S. interest in buying Cuba

Answer 10

Ostend Manifesto

Question 11

Called for the right to take slaves into all the territories

Answer 11

Nashville Convention

Question 12

Slave who lost a Supreme Court decision

Answer 12

Dred Scott

Question 13

Gifted orator, senator from Massachusetts

Answer 13

Daniel Webster

Question 14

Democrat elected President in 1856

Answer 14

James Buchanan

Question 15

The tendency of people in different parts of the country to have different and often conflicting views

Answer 15

Sectionalism

Question 16

Became President after Taylor’s death, supported the Compromise of 1850

Answer 16

Millard Fillmore

Question 17

1848 event in California that heightened the debate over slavery in the territories

Answer 17

Discovery of gold

Question 18

The forbidding in the House of Representatives of petitions regarding the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia

Answer 18

Gag rule

Question 19

Part of the Compromise of 1850 to which many northerners objected

Answer 19

Fugitive Slave Law

Question 20

A collection of provisions organized by Henry Clay to avoid disunion

Answer 20

Compromise of 1850