Unit 7

The Fugitve Slave Law was a compromise between Northern and Southern states which was a part of...

• The Fugitive Slave Law
• The Compromise of 1850
• The Missouri Compromise
• The United States Compromise

 ___ _________ _________  was a part of Missouri's admittance into the US due to the national divide on slavery.  

• The Compromise of 1850
• The Missouri Compromise
• The Missouri Divide
• The St. Louis Arch

How were the Missouri Compromise and The Compromise of 1850 similar? 

• They both allowed slavery in the North.
• They both said escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners. 
• They both solves arguments over whether to add new territories as states. 

^{An issue that divided the North and South and led to the Civil War was...}

• length of term for the President.
• use of Judicial review by the Supreme Court. 
• balance of power between the states and the federal government. 
• application of the impeachment process. 

If you were to ask a Northerner what the Civil War was about, what would they say?

• Cotton diplomacy 
• Industrialization 
• Slavery
• States Rights

In the 1850s, the phrase “Bleeding Kansas” was used to describe clashes between...

• proslavery and antislavery groups
• Spanish landowners and new American settlers
• Chinese and Irish railroad workers
• Native American Indians and white settlers

In the 1850s, why did many runaway slaves go to Canada?

• They feared being drafted into the Northern army.
• The Fugitive Slave Act kept them at risk in the United States.
• More factory jobs were available in Canada.
• Northern abolitionists refused to help fugitive slaves.

Abolitionists in the pre-Civil War period were most likely to support the..

• removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia.
• passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
• activities of the Underground Railroad.
• use of popular sovereignty in the territories.

What was the primary reason that slavery became more widespread in the South than in the North?

• The abolitionist movement was based in the North.
• The textile industry was controlled by southern merchants.
• Opposition to slavery by the Anglican Church was stronger in the North. 
• Geographic factors contributed to the growth of the southern plantation systems. 

From 1820 to 1865, the debates over nullification, protective tariffs, and the spread of slavery into the new territories concerned the constitutional issue of...

• balance of power between the federal and state governments.
• balance between the rights of individuals and the need to maintain order.
• protection of the rights of ethnic and racial groups 
• separation of power between the executive and legislative branches.