Topic 8 - Civil War

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

What term reflects the idea that people would decide the issue of slavery through voting?

• we the people

• republicanism

• popular sovereignty

• election day

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.

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

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

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

Which two political parties both wanted slavery to be banned in the territories?

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

• Free Soil Party

• Know Nothing Party

Northerners were angry that the ______ repealed the Missouri Compromise.

• Dred Scott v. Sanford ruling

• Compromise of 1850

• Election of 1860

• Kansas Nebraska Act

As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act 200 people were killed during Bleeding Kansas.

• Ture

• False

As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act border ruffians crossed over from Missouri and illegally voted in the Kanasas elections.

• True

• False