Quiz: Chapter 18

California's bid for statehood in 1849 was controversial because it sought to enter as a:

• a. Free state
• b. Slave state
• c. Territory only
• d. Part of Mexico

The Compromise of 1850 was largely engineered by:

• a. Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas
• b. Andrew Jackson
• c. James K. Polk
• d. John C. Calhoun alone

The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 was the:

• a. Fugitive Slave Law
• b. Admission of California
• c. Ban on the D.C. slave trade
• d. Oregon settlement

The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 denied accused runaways:

• a. A jury trial
• b. The right to travel
• c. Access to lawyers only in the South
• d. The right to vote

Franklin Pierce won the presidency in:

• a. 1852
• b. 1848
• c. 1856
• d. 1860

The Ostend Manifesto proposed that the U.S. seize or buy:

• a. Cuba
• b. Canada
• c. Mexico
• d. Alaska

The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) organized new territories based on the principle of:

• a. Popular sovereignty
• b. The Missouri Compromise line
• c. Immediate abolition
• d. Federal appointment of governors

The Kansas-Nebraska Act's most controversial effect was to:

• a. Repeal the Missouri Compromise's ban on slavery in the region
• b. Abolish slavery nationwide
• c. Annex Cuba
• d. Create the Fugitive Slave Law

"Bleeding Kansas" refers to the violent conflict between:

• a. Proslavery and antislavery settlers in Kansas
• b. The Union and Confederate armies
• c. Mexico and the United States
• d. Britain and the United States

In 1856, proslavery "border ruffians" sacked the free-soil town of:

• a. Lawrence, Kansas
• b. Topeka, Kansas
• c. St. Louis, Missouri
• d. Omaha, Nebraska

The new Republican Party, founded in 1854, was primarily dedicated to:

• a. Stopping the expansion of slavery
• b. Immediate national abolition
• c. Annexing Cuba
• d. Restoring the Whig party

The collapse of which party contributed to the rise of the Republicans?

• a. The Whig party
• b. The Democratic party
• c. The Federalist party
• d. The Republican party itself