Question 1
Both the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decision invalidated this agreement.
A) Compromise of 1850
B) Three-fifths Compromise
C) Wilmot Proviso
D) Missouri Compromise
Question 2
From 1820 to 1854:
A) North and South continued to put the Union above sectional interests.
B) each effort at compromise was more difficult.
C) politicians avoided slavery as a national issue.
D) territorial expansion caused few national disputes.
Question 3
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?
A) California admitted as a free state
B) Fugitive Slave Law adopted
C) Texas cedes lands to New Mexico Territory
D) slavery banned in all unorganized territories
Question 4
By the 1848 election, the national parties:
A) remained staunchly national.
B) managed to keep social divisions from occurring.
C) had divided over slavery.
D) were already eroded by sectionalism.
An albatross chick at Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Monument, Midway Atoll.