Divided Nation

How did Missouri’s application as a slave state in 1819 challenge U.S. law?

• It did not have a state constitution.

• States west of the Mississippi River were to be slave states.

• It did not have the population required for statehood.

• States north of the Ohio River were to be free states.

What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

• It temporarily ended the slavery debate.

• It required Southern states to pay higher taxes.

• It led to the South seceding from the Union.

• It upset the balance of slave and free states in the Union.

What was the significance of the 36˚30´ parallel?

• It separated the North from the South.

• It indicated the northern border of Missouri.

• It showed the borders of the United States.

• It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned.

Which was a fear of Southern senators if there were more free states than slave states?

• losing respect

• losing tax revenue

• losing voting power

• losing future elections

According to the Wilmot Proviso of 1846, in which area was slavery banned?

• Southern states

• Northern states

• Louisiana Territory

• land acquired from Mexico

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 required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.

Which two people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery?

• Daniel Webster and Henry Clay

• James Polk and John Quincy Adams

• Nat Turner and John Brown

• Charles Sumner and Stephen A. Douglas

All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except

• many slaves moved to Canada.

• Northerners refused to obey the law.

• hounded slave catchers returned to the South.

• plantation owners did not want returned slaves.

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• It created a slave revolt in Kentucky.

• It turned many more people against slavery.

• Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished.

• The South became more resolved to secede from the Union.

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

• It changed the borders of Missouri.

• It required that all of Missouri be free.

• It allowed slavery in new Northern territories.

• It established new interstate trade rules.