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Lesson 21- A Dividing Nation Part 1
Test Description: Teach TCI Lesson 21
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) How was US law challenged by Missouri's application to be a slave state in 1819?
A
It did not have the population required for statehood
B
it did not have a state constitution
C
States north of the Ohio River were to be free states
D
States west of the Mississippi River were to be slave states
2) In the Compromise of 1850, what did the North receive?
A
Fugitive Slave Act
B
Slave trade extended
C
Kansas and Nebraska admitted as free states
D
California admitted as a free slave
3) What is the 36°30' parallel?
A
It indicated the northern border of Missouri
B
It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned.
C
It separated the North from the South
D
It showed the borders of the United States
4) Missouri Compromise had what effect on the United States in 1820?
A
It required Southern states to pay higher taxes.
B
It led to the South seceding from the Union
C
It upset the balance of slave and free states in the Union
D
It temporarily ended the slavery debate
5) If there were to be more free states in the Union what did Southern senators believe would happen?
A
losing voting power
B
losing respect
C
losing future elections
D
losing tax revenue
6) What part of the country was slavery banned in the Wilmot Proviso of 1846?
A
Southern states
B
Louisiana Territory
C
Land acquired from Mexico
D
Northern states
7) This state was excepted into the Union as a free state in the Missouri Compromise.
A
Maine
B
New Mexico
C
Missouri
D
California
8) What did the government include in the Compromise of 1850 that helped alleviate some of the South's fears?
A
It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington DC
B
It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
C
It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded
D
It created new taxes for railroad construction
9) To balance the interests of the North and the South when it came to slavery, these two men worked together?
A
James Polk / John Quincy Adams
B
Charles Sumner / Stephen A. Douglas
C
Nat Turner / John Brown
D
Daniel Webster / Henry Clay
10) Fugitive Slave Law failed except for which one of these reasons...
A
plantation owners did not want returned slaves
B
Northerners refused to obey the law
C
hounded slave catchers returned to the South
D
many slaves moved to Canada
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