Compromise Divides the Country

What was the name of the "Compromise" at the Constitutional Convention that kept slavery legal?

• the Five-Eighths Compromise

• the Three-Fifths Compromise

• the Property Compromise

• the Virginia Compromise

What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 create?

• balance of free states versus slave states.

• imbalance of free states versus slave states.

• legalized slavery in all new territory.

• conflict between states.

What did the Kansas -Nebraska Act allow?

• slavery in new territories

• no slavery in new territories

• the people to vote for or against legalized slavery

• Congress to decide about legalized slavery

What was Henry Clay's nickname?

• the Great Negotiator

• the Great Compromister

• the Great Gatsby

• the Great Communicator

What did the compromises prevent Congress from doing?

• going to war

• legalizing slavery

• expanding

• enforcing big taxes

John C. Calhoun was from _________ and introduced nullification.

• Alabama

• Georgia

• South Carolina

What does nullification mean?

• pay their own taxes

• make a federal law illegal

• make their own laws

• force a federal judge to resign

Who had to choose to legalize slavery in Kansas?

• the state legislature

• the state governor

• the citizens of Kansas

• the president

What did the Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court state?

• Enslaved people were property, not citizens

• Enslaved people were citizens.

• Enslaved people had rights and liberty.

• Enslaved people shouldn't be in court.

What did "Bleeding Kansas" show about the country?

• It was united about slavery.

• It was divided about slavery.

• It was ready to vote for slavery.

• It was ready for war.