25-26 U1-DS2-2.1

Which of the following was NOT a part of the Missouri Compromise?

• Maine entered as a free state

• Missouri entered as a slave state

• South of the 36 30 line were slave states

• North of the 36 30 line were slave states

In order to appease Southern states, Congress added ___ to the Compromise of 1850.

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• Maine was a slave state

• California was a slave state

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, how would the states of Kansas and Nebraska determine if they would be free or slave states?

• Kansas is free, Nebraska is slave

• Popular sovereignty

• Kansas is slave, Nebraska is free

• Congress will vote to determine status

“Compromise Enables Maine and Missouri to Enter Union” (1820) 

“California Admitted to Union as Free State” (1850) 

“Bleeding Kansas” (1854) 

 

Which issue is reflected in these newspaper headlines above? 

• Enactment of protective tariffs

• Extension of slavery into the west

• Voting rights for minorities

• Universal public education