March to Civil War- Warm Up

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, whether a state was free or slave would be determined by

• the time of each president election

• a majority vote in Congress

• a vote in the state legislature

• popular sovereignty

The Kansas-Nebraska Act, The Missouri Compromise, and the Compromise of 1850 were all designed to

• End slavery in the South

• Emancipate Slave

• Extend slavery to new US territories

• Deal with the issue of slavery in new territories

Manifest Destiny was a belief that

• social classes should be abolished

• Americans had a right to settle the West

• American women have the right to vote

• religion should be more important than politics

Which belief was a motive for the events in the diagram?

• Popular Sovereignty

• Jacksonian Democracy

• Manifest Destiny

• Abolitionism

Which statement BEST describes the Missouri Compromise?

• Slavery was prohibited throughout the Louisiana Territory

• The issue of slavery was left to be decided by local residents

• Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state

• A harsher fugitive slave law was enacted and the slave trade was prohibitied.