U.S. History Review

How did Missouri’s application as a slave state in 1819 challenge U.S. law?

• It did not have a state constitution. 
• States west of the Mississippi River were to be slave states.
• It did not have the population required for statehood. 
• States north of the Ohio River were to be free states.

Which was a fear of Southern senators if there were more free states than slave states? 

• losing respect 
• losing tax revenue
•  losing voting power
•  losing future elections

What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise? 

• It temporarily ended the slavery debate. 
•  It required Southern states to pay higher taxes. 
• It led to the South seceding from the Union. 
• It upset the balance of slave and free states in the Union.

What was the significance of the 36˚30´ parallel? 

•  It separated the North from the South.
•  It indicated the northern border of Missouri.
• It showed the borders of the United States.
•  It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned.

According to the Wilmot Proviso of 1846, in which area was slavery banned? 

•  Southern states 
•  Northern states
•  Louisiana Territory 
• land acquired from Mexico

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

•  It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves. 
• It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.

Which two people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery?  

• Daniel Webster and Henry Clay
• James Polk and John Quincy Adams
• Nat Turner and John Brown
• Charles Sumner and Stephen A. Douglas

All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except:

• many slaves moved to Canada.
• Northerners refused to obey the law.
• hounded slave catchers returned to the South.
• plantation owners did not want returned slaves. 

 What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• It created a slave revolt in Kentucky.
• It turned many more people against slavery.
• Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished.
• The South became more resolved to secede from the Union.

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise? 

• It changed the borders of Missouri.
•  It required that all of Missouri be free.
•  It allowed slavery in new Northern territories. 
• It established new interstate trade rules.