Rising Sectionalism Grade 8 Social Studies

How did the Missouri Compromise address the issue of slavery?

• By allowing slavery in all new territories

• By admitting Missouri as a free state and banning slavery in new states

• By admitting Missouri as a slave state and banning slavery north of the 36°30′ line

• By allowing popular sovereignty to determine the status of slavery in each new state

Which of the following were effects of the Compromise of 1850? Select THREE correct answers.

• California entered the Union as a free state

• The Fugitive Slave Act was strengthened

• Slavery was banned in Washington, D.C.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed

• Slavery was banned north of the 36°30′ line

Match each event with its impact on the issue of slavery.

• Missouri Compromise

• Declared that enslaved people were property, not citizens

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Increased legal penalties for helping enslaved people escape

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Allowed territories to decide on slavery based on popular sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Set a dividing line for slave and free territories in the West

Place the following factors under their respective category: North, South, or West.

Groups:

(a) North

,

(b) South

,

(c) West

• mining

• plantation agriculture

• reliance on slave labor

• Industrial economy

• growing abolitionist movement

• frontier farming

What was one major impact of the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision on the United States?

• It allowed enslaved people to vote in all U.S. territories.

• It ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in territories.

• It led to the immediate abolition of slavery in Northern states.

• It declared enslaved people to be U.S. citizens.

On the map, select TWO places where slavery was banned by the Missouri Compromise.

John Quincy Adams opposed the expansion of slavery in new states. Which of the following actions reflects his stance on this issue?

• Support for the Fugitive Slave Act

• Advocacy for a gag rule in Congress on anti-slavery petitions

• Presentation of anti-slavery petitions in Congress despite the gag rule

• Endorsement of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Place these events in the order they occurred to understand the build-up to the Civil War:

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act DIFFER from the Missouri Compromise in addressing the issue of slavery in new territories?

• It banned slavery in all territories.

• It allowed states to vote on the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty.

• It allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a free state.

• It set a dividing line for slavery along the 36°30′ latitude line.

True or False: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required any U.S. citizen to report escaped slaves and help capture them.

• True

• False