Road to the Civil War

Which event allowed expansion to the west by balancing the entry of a slave state with a free state.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Copromise

• Three-fifths Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

During the ____________ a state attempted to overrule a federal law.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Nullification Crisis

How did Pres. Andrew Jackson respond to the Nullification Crisis?

• Sent Federal Troops

• Eliminated all tariffs

• Assigned labor unions to South Carolina

• Allowed South Carolina to secede

Who was known as the "Great Compromiser"?

• John Adams

• Patrick Henry

• Henry Clay

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

As a condition of the Missouri Compromise slavery ________ north of the 36' 30" line.

• was allowed

• was not allowed

• will be voted on

• will permanently exist

Which section of the country wanted tariffs nullified?

• North

• South

• West

• Southwest

The Compromise of 1850 involved the free state of California which was part of the

• Oregon Territory

• Louisiana Purchase

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mexican Cession

The ______________ resulted in the capturing of enslaved person as well as freedmen.

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott Case

____________ resulted in the growth of the abolitionist movement in the North.

• Common Sense

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Interchangeable Part

• Transcendentalism

_____________ is the process of people deciding on an issue themselves.

• Federalism

• Checks and balances

• Republicanism

• Popular sovereignty