16-1 U.S. History Quiz
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- Q1
Name used in 1865 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas.
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
"Bleeding Kansas"
John Brown
300s - Q2
Put the issue of slavery to popular vote.
John Brown
"Bleeding Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
300s - Q3
Included the Fugitive Slave Act.
John Brown
Kansas-Nebraska Act
36 degrees 30' North Latitude
Compromise of 1850
300s - Q4
The line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states.
80 degrees 30' North Latitude
36 degrees 30' North Latitude
36 degrees 30' North Longitude
45 degrees 30' North Longitude
300s - Q5
A violent abolitionist.
Stephen A. Douglas
Henry Clay
John Jacob
John Brown
300s - Q6
The Wilmot Proviso called for
a pro-slavery government in Kansas
the election of Martin Van Buren.
banning slavery in any lands the U.S. acquired from Mexico.
California entering the Union as a slave state.
300s - Q7
What approach did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propose as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?
free soil
Texas-Maine Act
popular sovereignty
Gadsden Purchase
300s - Q8
Which term refers to pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote?
Missourians
lowans
border patrollers
border ruffians
300s - Q9
In which state did rival pro-slavery and antislavery governments exist at the same time?
Texas
Kansas
California
Missouri
300s - Q10
What is the name for the war between citizens of the same country?
Cold War
Inter-country War
Undeclared War
Civil War
300s