A Dividing Nation

How did Missouri’s application as a slave state in 1819 challenge U.S. law?

• A. It did not have a state constitution.

• B. States west of the Mississippi River were to be slave states.

• C. It did not have the population required for statehood.

• D. 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 slave and free states in the Union.

Which was a fear of Southern senators if there were more free states than slave states?

• A. losing respect

• B. losing tax revenue

• C. losing voting power

• D. losing future elections

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

• A. Southern states

• B. Northern states

• C. Louisiana Territory

• D. land acquired from Mexico

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• A. It created new taxes for railroad construction.

• B. It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• C. It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves.

• D. It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.

All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except

• A. many slaves moved to Canada.

• B. Northerners refused to obey the law.

• C. hounded slave catchers returned to the South.

• D. plantation owners did not want returned slaves.

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• It created a slave 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.

Which of these was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• It led to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas.

• It settled the slavery issue in Nebraska.

• It calmed the country's dispute over slavery.

• It required that the new territories would be free states.

What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?

• that slavery diminished the national character

• that African American rights were protected by the Constitution

• that African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court

• that slavery should be abolished by executive order