3.1 Quiz Retake

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

The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states.  North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, South of the line slavery was _________.

• permitted, prohibited
• prohibited, permitted or allowed
• sometimes prohibited, never allowed
• cheap, expensive

Where was the Missouri Compromise line?

• 36-30 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 46-40 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 56-50 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 66-60 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
• It added California as a slave state

What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?

• The underground railroad was ended
• Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
• Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
• Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves

As part of the agreement in the Compromise of 1850, how would slavery in the remaining territory from the Mexican Cession be decided?

• The Senate would vote

• The House of Representatives would vote

• The President would decide

• Popular sovereignty- the people in the territory would vote

What was the decision of the Dred Scott Case?

• Slavery was not allowed to expand west into new territories.

• Slaves are property and are allowed to be taken anywhere.

• Slavery would be abolished in California and Utah Territories.

• Kansas and Nebraska could choose whether or not they wanted slavery.

What was the Major effect of the Kansas Nebraska Act?

• Fighting broke out between slave and anti-slave people in Kansas.

• Kansas joined the USA as a slave state.

• Fewer people moved to Kansas because of the Act.

• Nebraska joined the USA as a free state.

What was the key issue that was debated each time a new state was admitted to the Union before the Civil War?

• the expansion of slavery
• the building of railroads 
• the provision of women's suffrage
• support for the homesteading