Unit 5 Milestone Review

Which of the following is NOT part of the Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820)?

• Missouri entered as a slave state
• Maine entered as a free state
• 36'30 latitude would solve issue of slavery for future states
• Selling of slaves was outlawed in Washington DC

Which of the following is NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?

• California was admitted as free state
• Fugitive Slave Act was passed
• Slave trade was outlawed in Washington DC
• Dred Scott was returned to his master after suing for his freedom

Which of the following was the correct order of events?

• Lincoln is elected president, SC seceded, shots fired at Ft. Sumter
• Lincoln is elected president, shots fired at Ft. Sumter, Nullification Crisis
• Lincoln elected president, SC seceded, passage of Missouri Compromise
• Shots fired at Ft. Sumter, Lincoln elected president, SC seceded

What event basically said slavery could spread anywhere in the U.S. because slaves were considered property and could be taken into areas that did not allow slavery?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott case
• "Bleeding Kansas"
• Nullification crisis

The Nullification Crisis led John C. Calhoun to claiming "states' rights". What does this mean?

• states have the authority to pass a tariff on agricultural or industrial products they produce
• states have the power to decide if they want to secede (break apart) from the U.S.
• states have the authority to ignore laws they felt were unfair
• states can vote to allow the people to decide if they should be a slave state or free state

The North had many advantages over the Confederacy. Which was NOT one?

• larger population
• railroads for transportation
• more factories and industrial output
• a will to preserve the system of slavery

The Kansas Nebraska Act allowed the residents of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on the issue of slavery. This is called

• states' rights
• popular sovereignty
• temperance
• seceding

The ______________ would have outlawed slavery in any territory in the Mexican cession but it failed to pass.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Wilmot Proviso
• 36'30 line
• Compromise of 1850

Nat Turner and John Brown were similar in that they both

• tried to lead slave rebellions
• fought for the Union during the Civil War
• supported the temperance movement and westward expansion
• were members of the Free Soil Party

Andrew Jackson's actions in the nullification crisis suggests that he

• supported the unlimited use of federal power by the president.
• was a strong supporter of states' rights over the power of the national government.
• believed in the limited use of federal power but also that states were not truly sovereign.
• supported lower tariffs on manufactured and industrial imported goods.