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What is true about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
a) Kansas and Nebraska would be required to enter the Union as free states.
b) Popular sovereignty would decide the issue of slavery.
c) Kansas and Nebraska would be required to enter the Union as slave states.
d) Local governments would decide the issue of slavery.
Why did the issue of abolishing slavery create a division between the northern and southern states?
a) Northerners felt they had the power to declare any national law illegal and the South did not.
b) The North felt slavery was morally wrong and the South felt it would destroy their economy.
c) Southerners wanted to sell their cotton and transition into a manufacturing region which would create competition for the No
d) Southerners felt it would boost their economies and the North did not want enslaved people working in their factories.
What was different about the the Compromise of 1850 from previous ones?
a) It not only effected new territories or states, but also said the North had to return runaway enslaved people.
b) It was put into law by a unanimous vote.
c) It made both sides happy because they got what they wanted.
d) It involved paying a state to allow the people to vote on slavery.
The ____ stated that runaway enslaved people caught in the Northern states had to be returned to their owners.
a) Kansas-Nebraska Act
b) Missouri Compromise
c) Stamp Act
d) Fugitive Slave Act
The Missouri Compromise tried to satisfy people with different beliefs about slavery by —
a) admitting one free state and one slave state to the Union
b) prohibiting slavery in the Kansas Territory
c) ending the slave trade throughout the country
d) spreading slavery to plantations growing cotton and tobacco
What happened in the United States in 1820?
a) All citizens were required to return runaway slaves or face jail time and possible fines.
b) The United States gained control of large amounts of land west of the Mississippi River.
c) Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state.
d) Settlers decided if the two new territories would be free or slave territories.
Which issue contributed most to sectional differences between the North and the South prior to the Civil War?
a) Abolition of slavery
b) Attack on Fort Sumter
c) Election of Abraham Lincoln
d) Expansion of western terrority
What event finally caused the South to secede from the Union, starting the Civil War?
a) Firing on Fort Sumter
b) Compromise of 1850
c) Compromise of 1860
d) Lincoln’s election
Most Southerners believed that states had freely created and joined the Union and could freely leave it. This belief caused what war in the United States?
a) Mexican-American War
b) War of 1812
c) Civil War
d) Revolutionary War
The people had a choice to be a free state or a state that supported slavery. This was known as —
a) popular sovereignty
b) the Compromise of 1850
c) the Missouri Compromise of 1820
d) the Maine Compromise
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