Civil War Study Guide

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

Who came up with the idea of the Missouri Compromise?  

• James Monroe
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Henry Clay

Which of the following words means that a person places the interests of a small area over the interests of the entire country?

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Secession

What is the idea that the states, not the national government should have final say on laws that affect them?

• State's Rights

• National Rights

What is a fugitive?

• someone who likes to eat figs

• someone who works for the government

• someone who escapes from the law

What was the Fugitive Slave Act? (1850)

• Where if you saw a slave you had the choice to tell the owner

• If you saw a slave you had to report it or receive punishment

• Where you ate a taco 🌮

• Where slaves got free from slave owners and were a compromise with the slaveholders and abolitionists

What was it also part of in 1850?

• The Compromise of 1850

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Great Potato Famine

• National Bank Founded

Who was also known as the Great Compromiser?

• Ronald McDonald

• Henry Clay

• Harvey Winter

• Clay Deacon

Which of the following was one of the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Kansas and Nebraska were united into one territory

• Kansas and Nebraska could decide if they wanted slavery

• Banned slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska

• Allowed slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska