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WorksheetsThe Compromise !
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 12mins
What was the Missouri compromise MOSTLY about?
Drew a line to show where you allowed to own slaves and where you were not allowed to own slaves.
Returning slaves back to their owners.
Fighting with others to take land.
Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.
In the Missouri compromise what 2 state was allowed to enter as a free state?
Maine
Missouri
Alabama
Kentucky
The Missouri compromise is also known as?
The Compromise 1820
The Great Compromise
The Henry Compromise
The Equality
Who came up with the idea of the Missouri compromise?
George Washington
Henry Clay
James Monroe
Thomas Jefferson
At the time of the Missouri Compromise, there were 11 free states and 11 slave states. Where would the balance between free and slave states become unbalanced if Missouri was accepted as a slave state?
In the House of Representatives
In the Senate
In the judicial Branch
In the Executive Branch
What was the 2 most important parts of the Compromise of 1850?
Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.
Package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850
California would be a free state also the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Law.
Five bills passed by congress
Why was the South against California entering the union?
California liked to free slaves
California was the scene of violence and bloodshed
California wanted to be a slave state
California would upset the delicate balance of the Senate
What was the Fugitive Slave act?
required runaway slaves to return to their masters.
slaves could stay free
runaway slaves had to get killed
a law passed by congress to keep slaves lock up
What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?
That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens.
The slavery diminished the national character.
That African American rights were protected Constitution.
That slavery should be abolished by executive order.
The Dred Scott case made what Compromise unconstitutional?
The Missouri Compromise
The Great Compromise
The great compromise of 1850
The Great Compromise
During the Lincoln-Douglas debates what was Lincoln's view of slavery?
The nation could continue as half-free
It was a moral issue
Slavery would cause the Union to dissolve
It was a legal issue
Dred Scott is famous for...
Owning a slave
Becoming a famous doctor
Winning a nobel prize
suing for his freedom
