A Dividing Nation

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 and without slavery

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 happened if there were more free states than states with slavery?

• losing respect

• losing tax revenue

• losing voting power

• losing future elections

According to the Wilmot Proviso of 1846, in which area was slavery banned?

• 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 DC

• It included a law requiring the return of people who had escaped slavery

• it required the Underground Railroad 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. Douglass

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 driven back to the South

• plantation owners did not want enslaved people returned

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

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

• It changed the borders of Missouri

• It required that all of Missouri be free

• It allowed slavery in new Northern territories

• It established new interstate trade rules