Sectional Tension

Question 1

What does this describe?
‘People of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories should enter the Union as free or slave states’

Answer 1

Popular sovereignty

Question 2

When was the first Fugitive Slave Act passed?

Answer 2

1793

Question 3

What was the name of the Northern state laws that were passed to help them ignore the Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 3

Personal liberty laws

Question 4

When did the Texans declare independence?

Answer 4

1836

Question 5

What year was James Polk elected President?

Answer 5

1844

Question 6

When did the US bring Texas into the Union?

Answer 6

1845

Question 7

What war was started in 1846?

Answer 7

Mexican-American war

Question 8

When did this war end?

Answer 8

1848

Question 9

What was the name of the Treaty that was signed to end the war?

Answer 9

Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo

Question 10

Roughly how much land did this give to the US?

Answer 10

500,000 square miles

Question 11

What did the compromise of 1850 mean for California?

Answer 11

It would be a free state

Question 12

True or False: The Compromise of 1850 meant that new territory above the 36° 30° line could now become slave states if that is what popular sovereignty chose.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What year did major Stephen Long declare the Kansas Nebraska territory was unsuitable for settlement?

Answer 13

1820

Question 14

What political party was Stephen Douglas leader of?

Answer 14

Democratic

Question 15

What was Stephen Douglas’ nickname?

Answer 15

Little Giant

Question 16

Why did Stephen Douglas and other politicians desperately want to settle the Kansas Nebraska territory?

Answer 16

To build a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Question 17

What did Stephen Douglas believe the new states should do to decide whether they would become free or slave states?

Answer 17

Popular Sovereignty

Question 18

How many constitutions were proposed for the Kansas territory?
Can you name them?

Answer 18

4

• The Topeka Constitution
• The Lecompton Constitution
• The Leavenworth Constitution
• The Wyandotte Constitution

Question 19

Which of the constitutions does Stephen Douglas disapprove of?
What did it include that made him disagree?

Answer 19

The Lecompton Constitution

It permitted slavery, excluded free black people from living in Kansas and allowed only male citizens to vote

Question 20

What year was the Kansas Nebraska Act signed?

Answer 20

1854

Question 21

Why is there little chance of slavery taking hold in Nebraska?

Answer 21

The climate was too cold