L-21 A Dividing Nation Test

How did Missouri's application as a state with slavery in 1819 challenge U.S. law?

• states north of the Ohio River were to be free

• it did not have a state constitution

• it did not have the population required for statehood

• states west of the Mississippi were to be states with slavery

what was the effect of the Missouri compromise?

• it led to the south seceding from the union

• it required Southern states to pay higher taxes

• it temporarily ended the slavery debate

• it upset the balance of states with slavery and free states in the Union

What was the significance of the 36'30' parallel?

• it indicated where slavery was allowed and banned

• it separated the North from the South

• it indicated the northern border of Missouri

• it showed the borders of the United States

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

• respect

• tax revenue

• voting power

• future elections

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

• southern states

• northern states

• Louisiana Territory

• land acquired from Mexico

Which two people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery?

• Nat Turner and John Brown

• James Polk and John Quincy Adams

• Daniel Webster and Henry Clay

• Charles Sumner and Stephen A. Douglas

All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except

• many enslaved people moved to Canada

• plantation owners did not want returned enslaved people

• Northerners refused to obey the law

• people who caught fugitives from slavery were driven back to the South

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

• the South became more resolved to secede from the Union

• Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished

• it caused enslaved people to revolt again in Kentucky

• it turned many more people against slavery

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

• it changed the borders of Missouri

• it required that all of Missouri be free

• it established new interstate trade rules

• it allowed slavery in new Northern territories

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

• led to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas

• settled the slavery issue in Nebraska

• calmed the country's dispute over slavery

• required that the new territories would be free states