U9: Cause of Civil War

What was the main purpose of the Missouri Compromise?

• To keep the mercantilist economy of Great Britain.

• To maintain balance between slave & free states.

• To reach a compromise between large & small states.

• To satisfy slave states by creating a system for the capture of escaped slaves.

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Missouri Compromise

What is the correct definition for "popular sovereignty"?

• The State Government decide the laws for the states.

• Political Parties are allowed to campaign in slave states.

• Citizen's decide what they want through voting.

• The Federal Government decides the laws for the states.

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Popular Sovereignty

Correctly identify the sections of the Compromise of 1850.

(Multiple Correct Answers)

• Florida territory was admitted from Spain.

• California is admitted as a free-state.

• Maine & Missouri are admitted as slave-states.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Oregon was admitted as a free-state.

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Compromise of 1850

The Kansas-Nebraska Act directly led to ---

• The Compromise of 1850.

• Tax acts from the federal government.

• War between slave states & free states.

• Violence known as Bleeding Kansas.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

Explain Dred Scott's argument in Dred Scott v. Sandford & the Supreme Court's ruling.

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Dred Scott