1850s: Decade of Controversy

1 Why were northerners interested in both the economic development of the western territories and the issue of the extension of slavery into them? they believed that slavery in the western territories would force free workers to compete with slaves for jobs they believed that slavery would help to bring about early economic development in the western territories they believed that a state with slavery would also be a state that favored low taxes and an unregulated business environment all of the above none of the above 2 Which of the following is not true of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? it rendered void the terms of the Compromise of 1850 it was strongly supported by Stephen Douglas it applied the principle of popular sovereignty to Nebraska and Kansas it superseded the Missouri Compromise it split the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska 3 According to the Freeport Doctrine a territorial legislature could not prohibit slavery because the legislature was created by Congress, which itself could not prohibit slavery popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision were compatible because states could in effect exclude slavery by refusing to protect the property of slaveowners a house divided against itself cannot stand the Dred Scott decision had been overturned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act slavery was immoral and illegal 4 Which 1860 presidential candidate is correctly paired with position on slavery? Bell: the South had a constitutional right to slavery, but Congress should not allow it to expand. Preserving the Union was important Breckenridge: Congress had no right to protect slavery in any territory that contained slaves Lincoln: popular sovereignty should determine the status of slavery in the territories Douglas: preservation of the Union was more important than the extension of slavery all of the above 5 The Dred Scott decision declared that Congress could not admit new slave states prohibit slaveholders from taking slaves into northern states bar slavery in the territories pass a fugitive slave law prevent freed blacks from voting