Studies Weekly: Week 19 - Compromises to Keep Slavery Legal

Why was the "gag rule" put in Congress about abolition?

• the topic made people sick

• the northern states refused to listen to abolitionist views

• the southern states refused to listen to abolitionist views

• the western states refused to listen to abolitionist views

Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed _____

• slavery in new territories

• no slavery in new territories

• the people to vote for or against legalized slavery

• congress to decide about legalized slavery

What was the line called that separated the North from the South?

• the Mason-Jar Line

• the Jason-Dickens Line

• the Mason-Dixon Line

• the Jason - Dixon Line

What crop was grown only in the southern region?

• corn

• orchards

• wheat

• cotton

Compromises in Congress kept ______

• the country from going to war

• the country from legalized slavery

• the country from expanding

• the country from big taxes

________ said, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

• Daniel Webster

• John Brown

John C. Calhoun introduced nullification, meaning the states could make _____-

• a federal law illegal

• their own laws

• a federal judge resign

• their own taxes

The conflict in the Capitol Building between Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks showed _____

• how everyone gets along in congress

• the strong emotions about abolotion and slavery

• the best way to solve a difference of opinion

• how everyone felt the same about slavery

The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court stated that ______

• enslaved people were property, not citizens.

• enslaved people were citizens

• enslaved people had rights and liberty

• enslaved people shouldn't be in court

"Bleeding Kansas" showed that the country was _____

• united about slavery

• divided about slavery

• ready to vote for slavery

• ready for war