Compromises of the Antebellum Period

Abolition is:

• The act of withdrawing membership from a larger group

• Rights of citizens to political and social equality and freedom

• The action of ending a system or practice

• The different lifestyles, social structures, customs, and political values of the North, and South

ANTEBELLUM means ______________________________

• Existing after a specific war

• Occurring before a particular war

• Happening a decade before a war

• It has not happened at all

A compromise is:

• a way to settle an agreement when both sides give a little to get a part of what they want

• when a settlement can NOT be reached between two groups

An extreme loyalty to one's region is called

• partiality

• sectionalism

• common sense

• selfishness

Who is known as the "Great Compromiser"?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• Thomas Jefferson

Sectionalism and compromises over slavery were some of the causes for which war?

• War of 1812

• Civil War

• American Revolution

• French and Indian War

Which compromise was passed first?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed_____________ to enter the union as a slave state.

• MISSOURI

• MAINE

• Both states

• None of these two states

The Compromise of 1820 was an attempt to _____________________________________.

• keep the slave states and free states equal in Congress

• abolish slavery in all states

• expand slavery to the West

Which of these compromises did not grant popular sovereignty?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• None of these compromises