Extra Quiz: Chapter 18

1. Before California's statehood bid, the Senate balance stood at how many free and slave states?

2. Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 organized the rest of the Mexican Cession using:

3. The Compromise of 1850 abolished which practice in Washington, D.C.?

4. Because the compromise couldn't pass as one bill, Stephen Douglas:

5. Which president signed the Compromise of 1850 into law?

6. The Fugitive Slave Law required northerners to:

7. Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law included:

8. Franklin Pierce's foreign policy embraced the expansionist idea known as:

9. The Ostend Manifesto targeted which European power's colony?

10. Stephen Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act partly to secure a route for a:

11. The Kansas-Nebraska Act divided the territory into:

12. The Kansas-Nebraska Act specifically repealed the:

13. Proslavery Missourians who crossed into Kansas to influence its politics were called:

14. In "Bleeding Kansas," rival territorial governments were formed by:

15. In retaliation for the sacking of Lawrence, John Brown led the:

16. Outrage over the Kansas-Nebraska Act contributed most directly to the collapse of the:

17. The new Republican Party, formed in 1854, united antislavery Whigs, Free-Soilers, and:

18. The Republican Party's core founding purpose was to:

19. Along with the Republicans, another party that rose in the 1850s amid party collapse was the:

20. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was written partly in response to the:

21. Overall, the Compromise of 1850 mainly served to:

22. The Kansas-Nebraska Act's key long-term effect on national politics was to:

23. "Bleeding Kansas" is often seen by historians as a preview of the:

24. By the mid-1850s, the sectional crisis had shown that Congress's old compromises were:

25. Chapter 18 as a whole traces the sectional crisis from California statehood through the:

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