Chapter 16 - Toward Civil War

James Polk and Democrats favored annexation of which state?

Who won the 1848 Presidential election?

What was Stephen Douglas's resolution of Henry Clay's slavery plan?

Many Northerners reacted to the Fugitive Slave Act by increasing their opposition to slavery.

The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states.

What arose from the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

Who was a violent opponent of slavery?

What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

The Whig Party selected Millard Fillmore as a presidential candidate in 1849.

What does abstain mean?

Who decided the Dred Scott Case?

Who wrote "Civil Disobedience"?

How did Henry David Thoreau believe people should deal with unjust laws?

The Supreme Court's ruling in Scott v. Sandford outraged opponents of slavery.

What position did Franklin Pierce begin holding in 1853?

The Wilmot Proviso allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.

Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery during the 1848 pres election.

John C Calhoun offered a counter proposal to the Wilmot Proviso.

Which of these was a result of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act?

The South was mostly pleased by the Dred Scott decision because it said