Causes of the CW Quick Check

What legislative act below helped keep the balance between free and slave states?

• Embargo Act of 1807

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Townshend Acts

Southerners argued that the Tarriffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and states had the power to nullify them. They claimed they had this right because the South believed in and supported...

Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, South Carolina Secession and Dred Scott v Sandford all have what in common?

• Aftermath of Manifest Destiny

• Creation of Jim Crow South

• Results of the Abolition of Slavery

• Events Leading to the Civil War

What constitutional issue contributed to sectional conflict before the Civil War?

• Disagreement over the boundaries with the Oregon Territory

• Growing support for limiting female suffrage and immigration

• The limits on free speech and press included in the Alien and Sedition Acts

• Debate over the expansion of slavery into the West

Which region's primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton?

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What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• The Republican Party lost influence in the federal legislature.

• Tensions among the populations of northern and southern states increased.

• The Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional by federal courts.

• Immigrants were forced to relocate from eastern cities to western territories.

Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

• Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.

• Kansas entered the Union as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1856.

• Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas.

• The boundary established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was extended farther south.

What novel below further heightened tensions between the North and the South?

• American Progress

• Fever 1793

• Common Sense

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

What did the Compromise of 1850 give to the people of the Utah and New Mexico Territories?

• Federalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Checks and Balances

• Individual Rights

Which of these was NOT a factor of the Missouri Compromise 1820?

• Missouri became a slave state

• Maine became a free state

• The territories were given popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery

• The 36'30 line established the boundary between free territory and slave territory.