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US History Chapter 16, Lesson One

Quiz by Jay Wilkins

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  • Q1
    preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate
    Civil War
    Missouri Compromise
    19th Amendment
    Dred Scot Decision
    30s
  • Q2
    admitted to the Union in December 1845
    Arkansas
    Wyoming
    Utah
    Texas
    30s
  • Q3
    Democrats nominated James K. Polk of Tennessee for president
    1840
    1844
    1852
    1848
    30s
  • Q4
    got angry when Texas became part of the US
    Mexico
    Abraham Lincoln
    Federalists in the Northeast
    Arkansas
    30s
  • Q5
    a constant dispute over its location helped lead to the Mexican War
    border between Mexico and New Mexico
    border between Texas and Mexico
    border between Montana and Canada
    border between Arizona and Mexico
    30s
  • Q6
    President Polk tried to buy these territories. Mexico refused to sell them.
    California and new Mexico
    Guatemala and El Salvador
    New York and England
    Arizona and Texas
    30s
  • Q7
    Whigs picked General Zachary Taylor as their presidential candidate
    1852
    1844
    1848
    1836
    30s
  • Q8
    to withdraw or break away from a nation or organization
    seeread
    sebeed
    secede
    succeed
    30s
  • Q9
    person who is running away from legal authority
    convict
    attorney
    suspect
    fugitive
    30s
  • Q10
    those who opposed slavery left their parties and formed this
    Free-Soil Party
    The Democrat Party
    The Pajama Party
    The Abolitionist Party
    30s
  • Q11
    "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men."
    Democrat Party slogan
    Free-Soil Party slogan
    Republican Party slogan
    WWE slogan
    30s
  • Q12
    Anyone who helped a fugitive could be fined or imprisoned
    18th Amendment
    Fugitive Slave Act
    14th Amendment
    Red Scot decision
    30s
  • Q13
    armed pro-slavery supporter who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas
    abolitionist soldier
    border ruffian
    Liberators
    John Brown's army
    30s
  • Q14
    conflict between citizens of the same country
    ethnic cleansing
    border war
    civil war
    international conflict
    30s
  • Q15
    slavery supporters attacked the town of Lawrence, an antislavery stronghold. Antislavery forces retaliated. In October 1856, federal troops arrived to stop the bloodshed.
    Civil War
    "Bleeding Kansas"
    The Mexican War
    "Murderous Kansas"
    30s

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