Causes of Civil War

What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?

• To keep a balance of free states and slave states in the Union
• To promote trade with Native Americans
• To increase railroad travel in Missouri and reduce it in Maine
  
• To expand territory for white settlers

What state was added as a free state by Missouri Compromise?

• Missouri
• California
• Maine
• Nebraska

What state was added as a slave state by Missouri Compromise?

• Maine
• California
• Kansas
• Missouri

What did the Missouri Compromise say about the future of slavery?

• It would be legal in all future states
• It would illegal in all future states
• It would be prohibited above the 36,30 line
• The Southern states had to give up their slaves

What happened as a result of the Compromise of 1850?

• Native Americans returned to their lands in California, but were forced out of their lands in Wisconsin
• California was admitted as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act was passed
• Kansas was admitted as a free state while Georgia remained a slave state
• Maine and California were admitted to the Union as slave states

The Fugitive Slave Act was a part of the

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision

Popular Sovereignty was mainly used in the 

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Dred Scott Decision

T/F: The Kansas-Nebraska Act changed the Missouri Compromise by allowing slavery north of 36,30

• True
• False

The Compromise of 1850 outlawed the slave trade in 

• Atlanta
• Washington D.C.
• New York City
• All states

What did the Dred Scott decision say?

• It considered slaves to be property without rights.
• It outlawed slavery in all U.S. states
• It required that slavery not be allowed in all new states
• It gave slaves all the rights of U.S. citizens