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Transcribed Image Text:1. Which of the following is true of the Compromise of 1850?
a. It completely rejected the idea of popular sovereignty.
b. It included a stronger fugitive slave law.
c. It abolished both slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
d. It angered northerners by acknowledging the boundary claims made by Texas.
2.What
part of the Compromise of 1850 increased sectional controversy and conflict during the 1850s?
The admission of California as a free state
b. The settlement of the Texas boundary question
The ending of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
d. The Fugitive Slave Act
a.
C.
3.After passage of the Fugitive Slave Law,
Mexican authorities extradited runaway slaves to the United States for prosecution.
b. a significant number of blacks living in the North saw the act as a threat to their freedom
and fled to Canada.
most northern judges refused to enforce the act because of its repressive nature.
d. the Underground Railroad ceased to operate.
a.
C.
4.In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
a.
denounced slaveowners as immoral and sinful.
portrayed slavery as beneficial to blacks.
condemned the national government for allowing slavery to continue.
d. portrayed the evil effects of the institution of slavery on slaveowners rather than
condemning all southerners.
b.
C.
5.Who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska bill into the Senate?
James Buchanan
b. Henry Claу
Stephen Douglas
Franklin Pierce
a.
C.
d.
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