Civil War Causes

Based on the map, how did the Missouri Compromise limit slavery?

• No more slave states would be permitted to join the Union.

• Slavery would gradually be prohibited everywhere in the US

• Slavery would be confined to areas south of the 36°30' N

• There would be many more slave states than free states.

Which act banned slavery north of the 36'30 latitude?

• Compromise of 1850

• Three Fifths Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What compromise did Congress make to allow California to enter the Union as a free state?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Three Fifths Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

The Compromise of 1850 included which act that imposed strict laws on enslaved people?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Sugar Act

• Homestead Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

Which agreements did Congress make to settle disputes over the spread of slavery in the West?

• Three-Fifths Compromise, Great Compromise, New Jersey Plan

• Jay's Treaty, Pinckney's Treaty, Treaty of Paris

• Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act, Slave Codes, 13th Amendment

Abolitionists opposed annexation of new western territory because they

• feared the admission of new slave states

• were concerned with the legal rights of Native Americans

• wanted to limit the power of the national government

• supported an isolationist foreign party supported an isolationist foreign party

Which statement about the principle of popular sovereignty is correct

• it was a key principle of the Missouri Compromise

• voters in territories should decide whether to allow slavery

• Congress should abolish slavery in all states

• it established Kansas as a slave state

The social movement to abolish, or end, slavery was known as

• the abolitionist movement

• the suffrage movement

• the state's rights movement

• the Federalist movement

What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

• Dred Scott was set free since he lived in a free state

• Dred Scott was property and not a citizen

• Dred Scott's owners were guilty of kidnapping and arrested

• Dred Scott's owners had to pay him for his work

Which Supreme Court case said that slaves had no rights & were property in all parts of the US?

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Worcester v. Georgia