States' Rights, Sectional Tensions, and Compromises

__________ believed that they had the power to declare any national law illegal

• Northerners

• Southerners

__________ believed that the national government’s power was supreme over that of the states.

• Northerners

• Southerners

The South feared that the North 

would take control of __________,

• Congress

• Cotton production

Southerners began to proclaim 

________________as a means of self protection.

• states’ rights

• Free speech

• lower taxes

• higher taxes

Southerners felt that the abolition of ________ would destroy their region’s economy.

• slavery

• Free speech

• taxes

• suffrage

____________ believed that slavery should be abolished for

 moral reasons. 

• Northerners

• Southerners

• Plantation owners

Which Compromise?

Missouri entered the Union as a 

slave state; Maine was a free state.

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which Compromise?

California entered the Union as a free state.

Southwest Territories would decide the slavery issue for themselves.

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which Compromise?

Fugitive Slave Act was passed

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which Compromise?

Slave trade was banned in Washington D.C.

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act