Conflicts Before the Civil War

This conflict was about making sure there were an equal number of slave and free states

• Missouri Compromise

• Nullification Crisis

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

This conflict was about adding California as a new free state - but the North had to accept a new Fugitive Slave Law to get the South to agree.

• Missouri Compromise

• Nullification Crisis

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

This conflict was about whether it was okay for states to ban slavery - and whether enslaved people were "free" if they went to a free state.

• Missouri Compromise

• Nullification Crisis

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

This conflict was about whether it was okay for states to ignore national laws if they thought they were unfair.

• Missouri Compromise

• Nullification Crisis

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

States were really concerned about the number of free estates and slave states because of the way that representation works in the...

• US House of Representatives

• US Senate

A tariff is a...

• product made in a factory

• Southern word for an enslaved person

• kind of compromise

• tax on imports

Which one of these pictures is closest to the meaning of the word "nullify"?

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The Fugitive Slave Law said that...

• Enslaved people who escaped to the North were free.

• People in the North had to help return people who escaped from slavery to the South.

• Northern states had to help pay for the loss of enslaved people who escaped.

The Dred Scott Decision made the people in the _____ angry.

• North

• South

The Tariff of 1828 made people in the _____ mad.

• North

• South