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WorksheetsCivil War Causes
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Based on the map, how did the Missouri Compromise limit slavery?
No more slave states would be permitted to join the Union.
Slavery would gradually be prohibited everywhere in the US
Slavery would be confined to areas south of the 36°30' N
There would be many more slave states than free states.
Which act banned slavery north of the 36'30 latitude?
Compromise of 1850
Three Fifths Compromise
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What compromise did Congress make to allow California to enter the Union as a free state?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Three Fifths Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850 included which act that imposed strict laws on enslaved people?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Sugar Act
Homestead Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Which agreements did Congress make to settle disputes over the spread of slavery in the West?
Three-Fifths Compromise, Great Compromise, New Jersey Plan
Jay's Treaty, Pinckney's Treaty, Treaty of Paris
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act, Slave Codes, 13th Amendment
Abolitionists opposed annexation of new western territory because they
feared the admission of new slave states
were concerned with the legal rights of Native Americans
wanted to limit the power of the national government
supported an isolationist foreign party supported an isolationist foreign party
Which statement about the principle of popular sovereignty is correct
it was a key principle of the Missouri Compromise
voters in territories should decide whether to allow slavery
Congress should abolish slavery in all states
it established Kansas as a slave state
The social movement to abolish, or end, slavery was known as
the abolitionist movement
the suffrage movement
the state's rights movement
the Federalist movement
What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?
Dred Scott was set free since he lived in a free state
Dred Scott was property and not a citizen
Dred Scott's owners were guilty of kidnapping and arrested
Dred Scott's owners had to pay him for his work
Which Supreme Court case said that slaves had no rights & were property in all parts of the US?
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Worcester v. Georgia
___________________ is rivalry based on special interests of different areas of the country?
nationalism
federalism
popular sovereignty
sectionalism
