USI Final Exam Review Quiz

What was the name of the United States' first plan for government?

• The Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• George Washington

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

Which describes the economy of the South?

• plantations; dependent on slavery
• industry; not dependent on slavery

Which describes the economy of the North?

• plantations; dependent on slavery
• factories; dependent on slavery
• plantations; not dependent on slavery
• factories; not dependent on slavery

Why were there more slaves in the South than the North?

• Their economy depended on slave labor
• Slaves were treated better in the South
• Slaves were banned to live in the North
• Slaves made more money in the South

What proposition would allow congress to ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the United States as a result of the Mexican American War.

• Wilmot Proviso
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise 1850
• Kansas & Nebraska Act

What invention helped spur forward slavery although it was meant to decrease it?

• Steam Engine
• Steel Plow
• Cotton Gin
• Water Loom

The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states.  North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, South of the line slavery was _________.

• permitted, prohibited
• prohibited, permitted or allowed
• sometimes prohibited, never allowed
• cheap, expensive

party formed in 1854 that opposed slavery in the Northern States

• Whigs
• Democrats
• Republican
• Union