AA11 8.21C SGD/ HISTORICAL COMPROMISES

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

Which state entered the Union as a free state as a result of the Compromise of 1850?

• California

• Maine

• Missouri

• Texas

According to the Compromise of 1850, which two territories were allowed to decide for themselves on the issue of allowing or banning slavery by popular sovereignty?

• Utah and New Mexico

• California and Oregon

• Oklahoma and Texas

• Michigan and Ohio

Sectionalism occurs when people favor the interests of one section of the country over the interests of the entire country. The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act that followed ____________________________________.

• increased sectional tensions in the United States

• decreased sectional tensions in the United States

• kept sectional tensions between the north and the south about the same

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

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

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

Which of the following was one of the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Kansas and Nebraska were united into one territory

• Residents could vote on the issue of slavery

• Banned slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska

• Allowed slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska