SSUSH8 Tension between North and South

Some slaves were able to escape to freedom in the North thanks to the ______________________________.

• Dred Scott Decision
• The Compromise of 1850
• Bleeding Kansas
• Underground Railroad

The Compromise of 1850 stressed the importance of ______________________ to decide if states entered the Union as slave or free states.

• Popular Sovereignty
• Rebellions
• Secede
• Government Elections

The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states.  North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, South of the line slavery was _________.

• permitted, prohibited
• prohibited, permitted or allowed
• sometimes prohibited, never allowed
• cheap, expensive

What is the Wilmot Proviso

• Treaty between Texas and Mexico
• Plan to reimburse John Wilmot for the losses he took during the Mexican War
• Bill designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican-American war
• Name of a famous speech written by James K. Polk

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

When the Southern states seceded what did they call their new nation?

• Union States of America
• New America
• Southern Union
• Confederate States of America

The conflict in Kansas between people who wanted slavery and people who did not want slavery lead to the fight known as ____________________________.

• Popular Sovereignty
• Free Soilers
• The Conflict in Kansas
• Bleeding Kansas

The biggest issue that divided the North and the South was ________________________.

• Immigrants
• Slavery
• Money
• Government Power

Who came up with the idea of the Missouri Compromise?  

• James Monroe
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Henry Clay

He became president of the newly created nation in the South.

• Stephen Douglas
• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• Henry Clay