Decades of Division: The Road to the Civil War

The Missouri Compromise maintained peace for 30 years by . . .

• allowing an equal number of slave states and free states to enter the United States

• Keeping a balance by accepting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state

• drawing an imaginary line across the Louisiana Territory declaring north of the line free and south of the line slave

• All of the Above

Nat Turner's Rebellion

• was an uprising of slaves that failed

• resulted in the execution of the slaves involved

• led to lawmakers to remove the right to an education and to assemble for slaves

• All of the Above

The Wilmot Proviso

• failed to pass

• would have resulted in slavery not passing into the territory of the Mexican Cession

• increased and continued the debate over slavery

• All of the Above

Popular Sovereignty means

• to allow states to vote on whether or not to allow slavery

• to outlaw slavery everywhere

• to permit slavery everywhere

• to allow the President to declare slavery is abolished

According to the Fugitive Slave Law, anyone helping a runaway slaves would be

• rewarded

• honored

• fined

• executed

Based on the Compromise of 1850,

• slavery would no longer be permitted anywhere in the US

• slavery still had the opportunity to spread in the US

• popular sovereignty was declared unconstitutional

• California was admitted as a slave state

Under the Compromise of 1850, slave trade was outlawed in

• the United States

• the South

• Philadelphia

• Washington, D.C.

The Compromise of 1850, meant . . .

• that slaves had to reach Canada to truly reach freedom

• Northerners were being forced to enforce slavery

• that slavery had the opportunity to spread into the western territories

• All of the Above

Abraham Lincoln referred to ___________ as the "little lady who started the big war" because of her book Uncle Tom's Cabin.

• Harriet Tubman

• Clara Barton

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Bowman Smith

The Kansas-Nebraska Act, repealed or overturned ___________.

• the Fugitive Slave Law

• the Missouri Compromise

• the Compromise of 1850

• the 13th Amendment