TCI Ch 21 Review

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

• It did not have a state constitution

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

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

• It did not have the population required for statehood

What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

• It upset the balance of states with and without slavery

• It led to the south seceeding from the Union

• It required southern states to pay higher taxes

• It temporarily ended the debate over slavery

The 36*30' parallel was significant because it indicated where _______ was allowed and banned.

Senators in the south feared the loss of what if there were more free states than there were states with slavery?

• Loss of respect

• Loss of voting power

• Loss of tax revenue

• Loss of future elections

According to the ______ Proviso of 1846, slavery was banned in land acquired from Mexico.

In what way the 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 people who had escaped slavery.

• It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.

Which 2 people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery?

• Daniel Webster & Henry Clay

• Charles Sumner & Stephen Douglas

• James Polk & John Quincy Adams

• Nat Turner & John Brown

All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except

• People who caught fugitives were driven back to the South

• Many enslaved people moved to Canada

• Northerners refused to obey the law

• plantation owners did not want enslaved people returned

The novel, _____ ___'_ _____, helped to turn many more people against slavery.

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 established new interstate trade rules.

• It allowed slavery in new Northern territories.