Compromise to Conflict

MMC: Identify the results of the Missouri Compromise of 1820

• popular sovereignty

• 36,30' Parallel

• Maine is admitted as a free state

• California is admitted as a slave state

• Missouri is admitted as a free state

MMC: Identify the results of the Compromise of 1850

• California is admitted as a free state

• Maine is admitted as a free state

• Texas is admitted as a slave state

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Slave trade outlawed in DC

MMC: Identify the results of the Dred Scott SCOTUS decision of 1857

• If a slave enters a free state/territory, they are legally freed from bondage.

• Congress has no authority to decide if a state is free or slave

• The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

• The Fugitive Slave Act was unconstitutional

• Dred Scott remained a slave under Missouri law

MMC: Which conclusions BEST describe why Southern states began to secede from the Union in 1860?

• Lincoln was an abolitionist and vowed to end ALL slavery.

• Lincoln vowed to leave slavery alone in the South, but refused to let it spread to the West.

• Lincoln was not even on the ballot in 10 Southern states

• Lincoln's election split the Democratic party into two sides.

Where was the first official battle of the American Civil War?

• Fort Sumter, SC

• Harper's Ferry, VA

• Witchita, KS

• Omaha, NB

MMC: Identify the border states.

• Delaware

• Maryland

• Tennessee

• Kentucky

• Missouri

States that remained slave-states but never seceded from the Union.

• Receded states

• Border states

• Boundary territories

• Free territories

Who could claim that, "...the Civil War started in my front yard & ended in my front parlor?"

• Wilmer McLean

• Robert E Lee

• Stephen A Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

What were the results of Eli Whitney's cotton gin patent?

• Decreased productivity, increased demand for slavery

• Increased productivity, decreased demand for slavery

• Increased productivity, increased demand for slavery

• Decreased productivity, decreased demand for slavery

Who became the first president of the Provisional Confederate States of America?

• Robert E Lee

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

• Jefferson Davis

• Frederick Douglas