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

• It did not have a state constitution

• States west of the Mississippi River were to be states with slavery

• It did not have the population required for statehood

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

What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

• It temporarily ended the slavery debate

• It required Southern states to pay higher taxes

• It led to the South seceding from the Union

• It upset the balance of states with slavery and free states in the Union

What was the significance of the 36 ̊30 ́ parallel?

• It separated the North from the South

• It indicated the northern border of Missouri

• It showed the borders of the United States

• It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned

What did Southern senators fear would happen if there were more free states than states with slavery?

• losing respect

• losing tax revenue

• losing voting power

• losing future elections

If the Wilmot Proviso of 1846 had become law, where would it have banned slavery?

• Southern states

• Northern states

• Louisiana Territory

• land acquired from Mexico

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction

• It provided an end to the trade of enslaved people in Washington, D.C.

• It included a law requiring the return of escaped enslaved people

• It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded

Which two people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery?

• Daniel Webster and Henry Clay

• James Polk and John Quincy Adams

• Nat Turner and John Brown

• Charles Sumner and Stephen A. Douglas

All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except:

• many enslaved people moved to Canada

• Northerners refused to obey the law

• people who caught fugitives from slavery were pushed to the South

• enslavers wanted fugitives from slavery imprisoned

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• It caused enslaved people to revolt in Kentucky

• It turned many more people against slavery

• Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished

• The South became more resolved to secede from the Union

Which of these was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• It led to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas

• It settled the slavery issue in Nebraska

• It calmed the country's dispute over slavery

• It required that the new territories would be free states