Confronting the Issue of Slavery

How did Missouri’s application as a slave state in 1819 challenge U.S. law?

• It did not have a state constitution.

• States north of the Ohio River were to be free states.

• It did not have the population required for statehood.

• States west of the Mississippi River were to be slave states.

What issue created great conflict between the North and South in the mid-1800s?

• voting rights for women

• the idea of Manifest Destiny

• slavery in existing states

• slavery in new territories and states

In addition to outlining the steps leading to statehood, this law also banned slavery north of the Ohio River.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

According to the theory of states' rights favored by many Southerners, ________   had no power to impose its will on a state, old or new.

• Citizens

• Congress

• Presdients

• Slaves

Southerners' protests were based on their view that if Congress were allowed to end slavery in Missouri, it might try to end slavery elsewhere.

• True

• False

  _______ argued that the people of each state should decide whether to permit slavery. The fight over slavery thus involved a basic question about the powers of the federal and state governments under the Constitution.

• Westerners

• Southerners

• Northerners

Southerners were very concerned that slavery would spread across the entire Louisiana Territory.

• True

• False