Compromises of the Civil War

The idea that the states should be able decide for themselves whether or not they will be a slave or a free state.

• Checks and Balances

• Separation of Powers

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

In 1820, when Missouri wanted to be admitted into the Union, did it want to be a slave state or a free state?

• Slave State

• Free State

Fugitive Slave Act was part of

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• South's Slavery Law

What was the outcome of the Missouri Compromise?

• it outlawed slavery in all states

• slavery allowed in every state

• some states free, some states slave

• popular sovereignty in all states

Which compromise admitted California as a free state and included a stricter Fugitive Slave Law?

• A) Missouri Compromise of 1820

• B) Compromise of 1850

• C) Kansas-Nebraska Act

• D) 3/5 Compromise

The Fugitive Slave Law was passed under which law?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Tariff of 1828

When did California join as a free state?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

• Election of 1860

Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state.

• In the Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• None of the these

What year was the Missouri Compromise?

• 1820

• 1825

• 1850

• 1860

What is a main impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• overturned Missouri Compromise

• outlawed slavery

• started war

• Kansas and Nebraska secede