Road to the Civil War

The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 both dealt with what controversy?

• Ending the Mexican American War

• The expansion of slavery in western territory

• The power of Congress to allow or outlaw slavery

• The admittance of Maine as a free state.

What issue led Northern Democrats and Whigs to create the Republican Party?

• The secession of southern states.

• The Dred Scott decision.

• Support for the expansion of slavery.

• Support against the expansion of Slavery.

The expansion of slavery westward and the admittance of new states led to what concern?

• The ability of the Supreme Court to remain objective

• Congress could become too large.

• An imbalance of slave and free states in Congress.

• California was too isolated.

What were the results of the Missouri Compromise? Select all that apply.

• Missouri was admitted as a slave state

• The Fugitive Slave Law was Weakened

• Slavery was prohibited north of the Missouri Compromise line (except Missouri)

• Maine was admitted as a free state

What was the main argument of the southern states in favor of secession?

• The need for a stronger federal government

• The protection of states' rights, especially regarding the institution of slavery

• The desire to expand westward without federal interference

• The need to preserve the Union at all costs

How many southern states seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America?

• 7

• 11

• 13

• 15

You have the feeling of ​ (a)   if you feel that your region of the country is more important than the country as a whole.​

• sectionalism

• secession

The concept (a)   was popular with Texas ​ (b)   who claimed that ending slavery would damage the Texas economy

• states rights

• slaveholders

• Union soldiers

• Confederate soldiers

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott Case

• Compromise of 1850

• Georgia Platform

Name one problem that led to the Civil War.​ (a)  

• Slavery

• Land Acquisitions

• Territories

Answer explanation

Many consider a significant starting point to slavery in America to be 1619, when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 enslaved African ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. The crew had seized the Africans from the Portuguese slave ship Sao Jao Bautista.