WorksheetsSSUSH8 Recap
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which state was added as a free state to balance out Missouri joining the Union as a slave state?
Maine
Illinois
Indiana
Vermont
How did the Missouri Compromise increase sectional tensions between the Northern free states and the Southern slave states?
The Missouri Compromise limited religious freedom.
The Missouri Compromise limited the expansion of slavery into new Western territories.
The Missouri Compromise limited the expansion of new road and canal building projects.
The Missouri Compromise limited trade in new Western territories
What was the main idea of Manifest Destiny?
that the Native Americans owed the Americans something
that it was the God-given right for Americans to take the land
that people should go west and strike it rich
that the railroad should connect the entire country
The Compromise of 1850 admitted _________ as a free state.
Arizona
California
New Mexico
Utah
The Compromise of 1850 outlawed slave auctions in...
Washington, DC
Richmond
New Orleans
Charleston
What did the Compromise of 1850 say about slavery in other territories (besides California) that were acquired by the U.S. in the Mexican Cession?
Popular sovereignty would determine whether or not the territories would allow slavery.
They would automatically become slave states.
Slavery was banned.
All of the above.
The Compromise of 1850 included a new and tougher...
Freedom Act.
Emancipation Act.
Slaveowners Act.
Fugitive Slave Act.
An effect of the Supreme Court ruling in Scott v. Sandford was that
legal protection for slavery was strengthened
legal protection for slavery was weakened
the abolitionist movement was strengthened
the Missouri Compromise was strengthened
John Brown tried to help enslaved people in Kansas by
stopping a violent uprising
urging plantation owners to revolt
attacking proslavery settlers
urging proslavery settlers to move
Elected the 16th President of the United States in 1860. His election led to secession of southern states.
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
