
Topic 8 - Civil War
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Under this compromise Maine entered the Union as a free state and Missouri entered as a slave state.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Maine Compromise
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What term reflects the idea that people would decide the issue of slavery through voting?
we the people
republicanism
popular sovereignty
election day
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following was not part of the Compromise of 1850?
California entered as a free state.
A stronger fugitive slave law was passed.
The Utah and New Mexico territories would decide slavery through popular sovereignty.
Slavery was banned in Texas.
Slave trade was banned in D.C.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why did the South threaten to secede when California applied for statehood?
they worried that it would start a war with Mexico
the balance of free and slave states would be unequal
5.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Choose all of the following that were characteristics of the new Fugitive Slave Law.
Judges paid more for return slaves to the South
Fugitive slave were executed.
People in the North liked this new law.
Northerners could be jailed or fined if they didn't help return fugitive slaves
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following made northerners realize they could no longer ignore the moral issue of slavery?
Fugitive Slave Law
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Raid at Harper's Ferry
7.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which two political parties both wanted slavery to be banned in the territories?
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Free Soil Party
Know Nothing Party
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