Name: _________________________________ Period: ________ Unit 6
CHAPTER 14: Compromise to Secession, 1850-1861
I. TRUE OR FALSE: Mark the following true or false – if the statement is false, correct it to make it true.
1.
____Unlike the abolitionists, “Free Soilers” did not call for the end of slavery, but instead they wanted
to stop the spread of slavery into the territories.
2.
____When the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was signed, ending the Mexican War, there were 15 free
and 15 slave states.
3.
____ Slave-owning President Taylor recognized that most Californians favored slavery, prompting him
to urge California to bypass the territorial stage and apply directly for statehood.
4.
____Henry Clay presented six proposals to resolve the contentious issues surrounding the addition of
territories in the Mexican cession. He combined them into an “omnibus” bill that he hoped to push
through congress as one package.
5.
____The majority of congressmen in one or another section opposed virtually all of the specific bills
that made up the compromise. The Compromise of 1850 passed because the minority in congress who
genuinely desired compromise combined with the majority in either the North or the South who
favored each specific bill.
6.
____As part of the Compromise of 1850; the South won at least the possibility of slavery in New
Mexico and Utah territories, and a strong new Fugitive Slave Law.
7.
____As part of the Compromise of 1850, the North received California as a “free state” and a ban on
the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
8.
____ The Fugitive Slave Law allowed southerners to pursue fugitive slaves into the North. However,
the alleged fugitives were allowed to defend themselves in a court free of any incentives for judges to
return slaves to the South.
9.
____In some Northern states, “Personal Liberty Laws” were passed, making it difficult to enforce the
new federal Fugitive Slave Law.
10. ____Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written in protest of slavery and the Fugitive
Slave Act.
11. ____Franklin Pierce defeated Winfield Scott in the election of 1852 primarily because the Whig Party
was divided on the issue of slavery.
12. ____In the version passed, the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act called for the use of popular sovereignty in
the Kansas Territory.
13. ____The assumption by most congressmen was that when using popular sovereignty, Kansas would be
free and Nebraska, the more southern of the two territories, would be slave.
14. ____One major result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was the permanent disintegration of the Whig Party.
15. ____The first application of popular sovereignty in Kansas resulted in confusion and violence.
16. ____John Brown murdered several pro slavery men in Pottawatomie, Kansas to avenge the destruction
of Lawrence, Kansas.
17. ____Representative Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in response to Sumner’s
“Crime Against Kansas” speech which placed blame on Senator Andrew Butler, a relative of Brooks.
18. ____James Buchanan, a moderate northern Republican, defeated Democrat John Fremont and KnowNothing Millard Fillmore for president in 1856.
19. ____Brown’s raid fueled hysteria about slave revolts across the South.
20. ____Southerners viewed the North as a repressive power bent on waging war on the South.
Name: _________________________________ Period: ________ Unit 6
CHAPTER 14: Compromise to Secession, 1850-1861
II. IDENTIFICATION: Supply the correct identification for each item.
1.
Here in 1859, John Brown hoped to start a slave revolt that would liberate the slaves of Virginia.
___________________________
2.
The name of the system whereby the people of a territory vote to decide whether their territory will
enter the Union as a free or slave state. _______________________________________
3.
Taking over the Compromise of 1850 from the ailing Henry Clay, this Northern Democrat broke up
the omnibus bill into individual parts for which he then won individual passage. ________________
4.
This Massachusetts senator sacrificed a possible presidential nomination by speaking out in favor of
the Compromise of 1850. _______________________
5.
Following the death of President Taylor who might have vetoed the bill, this man was the president
who signed the Compromise of 1850. _____________________________
6.
This was the major concession to the South in the Compromise of 1850. It would later prove to be a
mistake because it galvanized abolitionist support in the North. ________________________
7.
He was the primary sponsor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. ___________________________
8.
Even the purchase of this narrow strip of land in southern Arizona and New Mexico meant to provide a
southern railroad route to the Pacific drew free-soilers’ suspicions about expansion. ______________
9.
This was the place that the Ostend Manifesto recommended that the United States try to acquire. _____
10. This political party evolved out of the nativist society called the “Order of the Star-Spangled Banner.”
It became a short-term alternative for the growing Republican Party. ___________________________
11. Events in the mid-1850s in Kansas came to be collectively known by this term. It has been called the
dress rehearsal for the Civil War. ________________________
12. This court decision invalidated the prohibitions of slavery in the Missouri Compromise. __________
___________________
13. This was the fraudulent pro-slavery constitution established for Kansas in 1857. _________________
14. These discussions elevated Abraham Lincoln to national prominence even though he lost in his bid for
the Senate in 1858. _______________________________
15. This was the name of Douglas’ defense of popular sovereignty after Dred Scott. _________________
16. He was the Northern Democratic candidate for president in 1860. _____________________________
17. He was the Southern Democratic candidate for president in 1860. _____________________________
18. He was the Constitutional Union Party candidate for president in 1860. _________________________
19. He was the Kentucky senator who tried to find a compromise in 1860-61 to prevent secession and the
Civil War. _______________________________
20. Located in Charleston Harbor, it was bombarded by the Confederate forces in 1861, marking the
beginning of the Civil War. ____________________________