Tensions over the issue of slavery increased as ___.

Once a territory had 60,000 people, it could apply to become a state. This was difficult because ___.

The South feared the North would take control of Congress and began proclaiming ____ as a way to protect their way of life.

Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state and Maine to join as a free state?

Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision created an imaginary line below Missouri's Southern border and said no territory above this line could allow slavery?

Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision allowed California to join the Union as a free state?

Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision divided the Mexican Cession into two Southwest territories, and allowed these two territories to vote on the issue of slavery?

Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision made stricter fugitive slave laws, requiring the North to return runaway slaves to the South?

Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision gave popular sovereignty to the people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories?

Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision said slaves were not citizens, but property, and could be taken into any state or territory by their masters?

Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision canceled out all pre-war compromises by opening up all of the US and its territories to slavery?

Why did the Southern states start to secede and form the Confederate States of America?

___ believed that the United States was one nation, a union, that could not be separated or divided.

___ believed that states had freely created and joined the Union and could freely leave it.

What happened after several states seceded from the Union that caused the other Southern states to secede and marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Which of the following statements is true?

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