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WorksheetsCompromise 9.2 (Exit Quiz)
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 2mins
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act state?
The people living in each new state would decide the slavery issue for themselves.
There would always be a balance in the number of free and slave states.
All new states to be added to the United States were to be free states.
All new states to be added to the United States were to be slave states.
What piece of legislation had Missouri enter the Union as a slave state and
Maine enter the Union as a free state?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Which Compromise let California come into the United States as a free state?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
What is the definition of "popular sovereignty"?
Each new state would enter the Union as free states
Each new state would automatically become border states
Each new state would decide the issue of slavery for themselves
Each new state would enter the Confederacy as slave states
This compromise made a stronger fugitive slave law and outlawed the sale of slaves in Washington DC
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
The Mountain Dew Compromise
What region of the United States is shown in the picture?
North
South
Western Territories
Southwest
Why did Southerners oppose tariffs?
Tariffs would increase manufacturing in the South.
Farmers and plantation owners could not afford to pay them.
Great Britain might stop buying cotton from the South if prices increased.
Tariffs would cause the price of southern goods to drop too low.
Northerners believed that the national government’s power was—
limited by states’ rights
only enforceable in the western territories
supreme over that of the states
only to be used by the president
While there were several differences between the North and South, what
major issue increasingly divided the nation and led to the Civil War?
Decent farmland
price of manufactured goods
Slavery
Federal taxes
Most Southerners believed that states had freely created and joined the
Union so—
they could freely leave the Union if they chose
the Union could not be separated or divided
new states should not be formed
there should only be one country on the North American continent
Felt the abolition of slavery would destroy their region's economy.
North
South
East
West
Believed that slavery should be abolished for moral reasons.
North
South
East
West
The Southern culture and economy was primarily—
Urban
Primative
Suburban
Agricultural
