toward civil war

What was the goal of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• To allow slavery in all states

• To ban slavery in southern states

• To keep the balance between slave states and free states

• To allow slavery in all new states

How was slavery effected by the US-Mexican War

• Texas was known as a free state

• The Wilmot Proviso wanted to ban all slavery in the lands gained from the War.

• Slavery expanded into Mexico

• It freed all slaves in the lands gained from Mexico

What Political Party was started in order to stop the expansion of Slavery, especially in the new WESTERN territories?

• Democratic-Republican Party

• Whig Party

• Free Soil Party

• Republican Party

What law in the Compromise of 1850 led to many Northerners being upset about the Compromise?

• The Free Soil Law

• The Tariff of Abominations

• The 3/5th's Law

• The Fugitive Slave Act/Law

Which State was made a Free State by the Compromise of 1850?

• Kansas

• Texas

• California

• Maine

What was created to free slaves during the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Slave Revolts

• Abolitionist

• Underground Railroad

• Monrovia

What is Popular Sovereignty?

• The States can override the Federal Government

• The President decides on an issue

• The Federal Government votes on an issue

• The People are allowed to decide on an issue

Southerners were talking about seceding during this Era. What does Secede mean?

• To join the Union

• To be victorious

• To create new laws

• to leave

This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 

• Fugitive Slave Act 
• Bleeding Kansas
• Missouri Compromise 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers 

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas