WOW Unit 8, Lesson 23 A Dividing Nation

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

• It did not have a state constitution.

• States west of the Mississippi River were to be states with slavery.

• It did not have the population required for statehood.

• 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 states with slavery and free states in the Union.

What was the significance of the 36°30′ parallel?

• It separated the North from the South.

• It indicated the northern border of Missouri.

• It showed the borders of the United States.

• It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned.

What did Southern senators fear would happen if there were more free states than states with slavery?

• losing respect

• losing tax revenue

• losing voting power

• losing future elections

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

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.

• It provided an end to the trade of enslaved people in Washington, D.C.

• It included a law requiring the return of escaped enslaved people.

• It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.

Which two people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery?

• Daniel Webster and Henry Clay

• James Polk and John Quincy Adams

• Nat Turner and John Brown

• Charles Sumner and Stephen A. Douglas

All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except

• many enslaved people moved to Canada.

• Northerners refused to obey the law.

• people who caught fugitives from slavery were pushed to the South.

• enslavers wanted fugitives from slavery imprisoned.

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 had no right to sue in federal court

• that slavery should be abolished by executive order