Events leading to the Civil war

What was the result of the Missouri Compromise?

• The U.S. would use the 36th Latitude Line to decide whether states would be Free or Slave

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• Missouri becomes Slave state

• Maine becomes free state

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

• permitted, prohibited
• prohibited, permitted or allowed
• sometimes prohibited, never allowed
• cheap, expensive

The Compromise of 1850 included five different laws. Which law was beneficial to the North as part of this compromise?

• South would have to pay the North for any captured slaves

• South promised to reduce the number of slaves

• Slavery was outlawed in the Louisiana territory

• California was admitted as a free state

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.

• It included a law for returning escaped slaves

• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.

The Fugitive Slave Act provided for the

• payment to slaveholders for escaped slaves

• safe passage for slaves

• expansion of slavery to free slaves

• recovery of runaway slaves, even if they escaped to a free state.

 • Missouri Compromise of 1820
 • Compromise of 1850
 • Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
These legislative acts were all efforts to resolve disagreements over what issue?

• War
• Slavery
• tariffs

Use the information below to answer the question that follows.
 • California entered the Union as a free state
 • Utah and New Mexico would decide for themselves
  whether to be slave states or free states
 • The slave trade in Washington, D.C., ended 
 • The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted
This list identifies provisions that were all part of which compromise?

• the Three-Fifths Compromise
• the Missouri Compromise
  
• the Compromise Tariff of 1833
• the Compromise of 1850
  

The book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which focused on the atrocities of slavery is called.....

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Atrocities of Slavery

• The Underground Railroad

• The Southern Overseer

Harriet Beecher Stowe published her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852. It sold 10,000 copies in its first week and 300,000 copies in its first year. What best explains the importance of Stowe’s novel?

• It encouraged more people to settle the West.
  
• It inspired many people to support abolitionism.
  
• It helped to increase literacy rates in the country.
  
• It was the first book written by an American woman.
  

Why did Uncle Tom's Cabin have such a large impact on abolition in the North?

• Northerners saw it as a way that they better than the South

• The book was pro-slavery and that made them mad.

• It was the first widespread description of the real horrors of slavery.

• It was written by a freed slave.