Slavery Divides The Nation

The loyalty to a part of a nation or region, but not the nation as a whole.

• emancipation

• sectionalism

• conscription

• secession

An idea that people living in a state or territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there. This idea was supported by southern states.

• Democracy

• Abolition

• Popular Sovereignty

• Slave Codes

This law said that escaped slaves must be returned to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who helped a slave escape.

• Harriet Tubman Law

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Bill of Rights

• Conscription

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

When was the Missouri Compromise reached?

• 1820
• 1850
• 1776
• 1803

Who came up with the idea of the Missouri Compromise?  

• James Monroe
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Henry Clay

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

• permitted, prohibited

• prohibited and permitted or allowed

• sometimes prohibited, never allowed

• cheap, expensive

___________ suggested the Compromise of 1850.

• The Northern states

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• The Southern states

Along with the compromise, Congress passed the ______________________, which stated all runaway slaves had to be returned to their owners.

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Missouri Compromise

• Runaway Slave Bill