Lesson 21 A Dividing Nation

How did Missouri's application as a state with slavery in 1819 challenge U.S. law?

• It did not have a state constitution.

• States west of the Mississippi River were to be states with slavery.

• It did not have the population required for statehood.

• States north of the Ohio River were to be free states.

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 states with and without slavery.

What is the significance of the 36"30 parallel?

• It separated the North from the South.

• It indicated the northern border of Missouri.

• It showed the boarders of the United States.

• It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned.

What did Southern senators fear would happen if there were more free states than states with slavery?

• losing respect

• losing tax revenue

• losing voting power

• losing future elections

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 trade of enslaved people in Washington, D.C.

• It included a law requiring the return of people who had escaped slavery.

• 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 enslaved people moved to Canada.

• Northerners refused to obey the law.

• People who caught fugitives from slavery were driven back to the South.

• plantation owners did not want enslaved people returned.

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

• It caused enslaved people to 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.