Events that led to the Civil War

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 established that slavery could not spread into new territory north of which line of latitude?

• 35'30

• 36'30

• 37'30

• 38'30

__________________ became a slave state as a result of the Missouri Compromise.

• Michigan

• Maine

• Minnesota

• Missouri

In 1848, the US acquired a vast amount of territory after its' victory over ____________.

• Mexico

• France

• Great Britain

• Spain

The acquisition of this new land led to the Compromise of ____________.

• 1848

• 1849

• 1850

• 1851

The Compromise of 1850 made ___________ a free state.

• California

• Utah

• Maine

• Missouri

The most hated provision of the Compromise of 1850 for abolitionists was __________________.

• California becoming a free state

• The slave trade being abolished in Washington, DC

• Utah and New Mexico territories being open to slavery

• The Fugitive Slave Act

The Compromise of 1850 made ________________ illegal in Washington, DC

• the slave trade

• indentured servitude

• slavery

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by ________________.

• Henry Ward Beecher

• Herman Melville

• Emily Dickinson

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854. It allowed the people in these territories to vote on whether to allow slavery. This concept of allowing the people to choose whether their state would be free or slave was known as _______________________________.

• popular sovereignty

• popular independence

• popular sectionalism

Popular sovereignty meant that slavery could potentially expand into the Kansas and Nebraska territories, where it had previously been banned. The idea of popular sovereignty was popular in the ________________.

• North

• South