Slavery in the Territories

What was the main issue that divided the North and the South before the Civil War?

• Slavery

• Taxation

• Trade policies

• Territorial expansion

What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• To maintain a balance between slave and free states

• To abolish slavery in all states

• To allow each state to decide on slavery independently

• To expand slavery to the North

Why did the voting idea for determining free or slave states in the territories become a disaster?

• People from neighboring states illegally voted

• The government did not enforce the results

• The voting process was too complicated

• There was no interest in voting

What was the reaction of Northerners to Charles Sumner's speech in the Senate?

• They considered him a hero

• They were indifferent

• They criticized him

• They supported Preston Brooks

How did Southerners view Preston Brooks' attack on Charles Sumner?

• They were proud of Brooks

• They condemned the violence

• They were indifferent

• They called for Brooks' arrest

What was the result of the vote in Kansas regarding slavery?

• Kansas was voted a slave state

• Kansas was voted a free state

• The vote was declared invalid

• The vote was postponed

What does the term 'border ruffians' refer to in the context of the passage?

• Men from Missouri who voted illegally in Kansas

• Northerners who opposed slavery

• Southern plantation owners

• Senators who supported the Missouri Compromise

Where did many enslaved people work in the South?

• building ships

• on large plantations

• in the Senate

• in clothing factories

What problem did the Missouri Compromise try to solve?

• whether Missouri would become a state

• whether new states would have slavery or not

• whether Missouri would join the Confederacy

• whether the North would begin having slavery

Allowing territories to vote on whether they would be free or slave states was a disaster. What evidence from the passage supports this conclusion?

• Charles Sumner was physically attacked on the Senate floor.

• “Border ruffians” sneaked into states to influence the vote.

• States below the line of latitude 36°30’ became slave states.

• There were many fights in Congress over slavery in the territories.