Road to Civil War Review

An act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

a proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

Which free state joined the United States with Missouri as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• Massachusetts

• Mississippi

• Minnesota

• Maine

According to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery was prohibited north of this line in the Louisiana Territory.

• 36-30 Line

• 49th Parallel

• North-South Line

• Mason-Dixon Line

A proposal that would have banned slavery in the Western Territories - it never became a law

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

• Slave Code

This state was admitted to the Union as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850

• California

• Texas

• Minnesota

• Maine

This law was part of the Compromise of 1850 and it legally required Northerners to return escaped slaves to the South

• Slave Code

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso

• Fugitive Slave Act