A Dividing Nation

What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

• A. It temporarily ended the slavery debate.

• B. It required Southern states to pay higher taxes.

• C. It led to the South seceding from the Union.

• D. It upset the balance of states with slavery and free states in the Union.

What was the significance of the 36˚30´ parallel?

• A. It separated the North from the South.

• B. It indicated the northern border of Missouri.

• C. It showed the borders of the United States.

• D. It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned.

Which was a fear of Southern senators if there were more free states than states with slavery?

• A. losing respect

• B. losing tax revenue

• C. losing voting power

• D. losing future elections

According to the Wilmot Proviso of 1846, in which area was slavery banned?

• A. Southern states

• B. Northern states

• C. Louisiana Territory

• D. land acquired from Mexico

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 benefit the Southern enslavers?

• A. It created new taxes for railroad construction.

• B. It provided an end to the trade of enslaved people in Washington, D.C.

• C. It included a law requiring the return of escaped enslaved people.

• D. It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.

All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except

• A. many enslaved people moved to Canada.

• B. Northerners refused to obey the law.

• C. People who caught fugitives from slavery were driven back to the South.

• D. plantation owners did not want returned enslaved people.

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• A. It caused enslaved people to revolt in Kentucky.

• B. It turned many more people against slavery.

• C. Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished.

• D. The South became more resolved to secede from the Union.

Which of these was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• A. It led to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas.

• B. It settled the slavery issue in Nebraska.

• C. It calmed the country's dispute over slavery.

• D. It required that the new territories would be free states.

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

• A. It changed the borders of Missouri.

• B. It required that all of Missouri be free.

• C. It allowed slavery in new Northern territories.

• D. It established new interstate trade rules.

What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?

• A. that slavery diminished the national character

• B. that African American rights were protected by the Constitution

• C. that African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court

• D. that slavery should be abolished by executive order