Unit 7-Civil War

Th Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were ALL laws made for what reason?

• stop the spread of slavery in ALL the United States

• balance the power between free and slave states.

• help spread slavery into ALL states

• help new territories become added to the United States once they reached 60,000 settlers

Which of the following was a result of the Compromise of 1850?

• Fugitive Slave Law was passed

• forced the North to pay a tariff for imported goods

• slavery was banned in all U.S. states

• California was banned from entering the U.S.

Under the Missouri Compromise, what kind of territory would be established above the (36 ,30) line?

• Free

• Slavery

Under the Kansa-Nebraska Act, these territories would be decided by popular sovereignty. Which compromise did the Kansas-Nebraska Act repeal(cancel)?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Great Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

Which law forced the North to send any escaped slaves back to the South

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Alien Act

• Homestead Act

• Fugitive Slave Law

Under the Compromise of 1850, how would the territories of Utah and New Mexico be decided between slave or free?

• Rule of Two

• the president would decide

• Popular Sovereignty

• the territories would be decided by war.

Which amendment in the Constitution was an argument for states rights?

• 10th amendment

• 6th amendment

• 1st amendment

• 3rd amendment

Who was the South afraid of becoming president because they knew he had the goal of ending slavery?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• James Monroe

• Robert E. Lee

Which state was added as a free state (located by the arrow) once Missouri entered as a slave state?

• Maine

• Connecticut

• New York

• Pennsylvania

Which of the following was not a cause of the Civil War?

• tariffs

• states rights

• slavery

• mercantilism