Causes of the Civil War P1

The Missouri Compromise

• was an agreement

• stated any state entering the nation north of the 36/30 line would be a free state (Louisiana Territory)

• stated any state entering the nation south of the 36/30 line would be a slave state (Louisiana Territory)

• gave citizens the opportunity to practice popular sovereignty

The Wilmot Proviso was a document that would have banned slavery in the Mexican Cession Territory had it passed.

• True

• False

Popular Sovereignty means

• Congress decides

• slavery will be banned in the south

• Citizens have the right to decide if slavery would be lawful

• The president would decide if slavery were lawful

The Free-Soil party was created with the goal of ending slavery in the west not abolishing slavery. They were afraid of losing votes.

• false

• true

The Compromise of 1850

• firmed the boundary of Texas

• outlawed the slave trade in D.C.

• admitted California as a free state

• passed the Fugitive Slave Act

• allowed popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah

The Fugitive Slave Act

• was a law that allowed the enslaved to go free

• was a law that allowed northerners to free those who were enslaved

• a law that required citizens to return runaway slaves to their owners

• was a law that enslaved all Black people.

John C. Calhoun was a Senator. What other views did he hold, select all that apply.

• for the South

• who was pro-slavery

• who was a strong nationalist

• was for strong states' rights

The Fugitive Slave Act

• demanded that Southern plantation owners allow runaway slaves to remain free

• demanded that judges be fair in court.

• demanded that all Americans return runaway slaves causing more African-Americans to seek freedom in Canada.

• was found to be illegal by the Supreme Court

The Compromise of 1850

• admitted California as a free state

• Upholds popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah AND settled a border dispute between Texas and New Mexico.

• Included the Fugitive Slave Act

• Banned slave trading in D.C.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• caused violence and fighting to increase in the North

• caused violence and fighting to increase over the issue of slavery in the U.S.

• caused John C. Calhoun to become President of the Confederacy

• caused peace for 20 years in the Kansas-Nebraska Territories