Causes of the Civil War

What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 accomplish?

• Allowed each state to choose whether it was a slave state or a free state.

• Made the North more powerful than the South.

• Kept the balance between slave states and free states in the Senate.

• Ended slavery in the South.

In the Missouri Compromise, which state entered the US as a free state?

• Maine

• Montana

• Missouri

• Mississippi

In the Missouri Compromise, which state entered the US as a slave state?

• Montana

• Mississippi

• Maine

• Missouri

What is the correct order of these events?

• Missouri Compromise, Civil War Begins, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Civil War Begins

• Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Civil War Begins, Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850, Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Civil War Begins

What was NOT a part of the Compromise of 1850?

• Stronger Fugitive Slave Law was passed

• Nebraska admitted to US as a slave state

• Slave trade ended in Washington DC

• California admitted as a free state

The Fugitive Slave Law required northerners to:

• Support the international slave trade

• Help return runaway slaves to the South

• Protect escaping slaves and hide them

• Help enslave free blacks

What did popular sovereignty mean for the Kansas and Nebraska Territories?

• The people of the territories would decide on whether they were slave or free.

• The line of the Missouri Compromise would be enforced.

• The territories would be closed to slavery.

• The territories would not become states.

What were the reasons Congress developed the compromises before the Civil War?

• a. To prevent war between the North and the South

• b. To spread slavery in the nation

• c. To end slavery in the nation

• d. All of the above

What impact did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on our nation? Select all that apply.

• The book further divided the North and the South

• The book sold few copies and had very little impact

• The book turned more people against slavery

The North was satisfied with the Compromise of 1850 because...

• There would be no more slave trade in Washington D.C.

• There would be a stronger Fugitive Law

• Montana would become a slave state

• All of the above