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Compromise Practice

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In 1820, before the Missouri Compromise, there were ​ (a)   slave states and ​11 (b)   . Hint: Use #3 in your Sectionalism notes.

Choose from the below words
11
Free States
12
Western States
2.

Reorder the following

a)

Missouri Compromise 1820

b)

Mexican-American War

1846-1848

c)

Compromise of 1850

1850

d)

Kansas Nebraska Act

1854

1)
2)
3)
4)
3.

Reorder the following

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Mexican-American War

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Kansas Nebraska Act

1)
2)
3)
4)
4.
Question Image

Match the following

a)

Maine Free State

1.

Missouri Compromise

b)

California Free State

2.

Compromise of 1850

c)

Bleeding Kansas

3.

Kansas Nebraska Act

5.

In the Missouri Compromise ​ (a)   enters the union as a ​ (b)   state.

Hint: #5 in your notes

Choose from the below words
Maine
free
California
Kentucky
slave
Oregon
6.

Categorize

Hint: 4, 5, 11, 12

Categorize the following

Missouri Slave State

Maine Free State

California free state

Fugitive Slave Act

vote to decide slave or free in KS & NE

Bleeding Kansas

Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act
7.

The conflicts created by sectionalism were over ​ (a)   .

Hint: #9 in your notes

Choose from the below words
power in Congress
Native American reservations
The Bill of Rights
8.

The 2 major sections of the U.S. that disagreed were...

a)

west

v

east

b)

rich

v

poor

c)

slave states

v

free states

9.
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Match the following

Hint: 12, 13, 14

a)

Scott v Sanford

1.

Dred Scott Decision

b)

Violent abolitionist

2.

John Brown

c)

Violence over Kansas becoming a slave state or free state

3.

Bleeding Kansas

d)

U.S. General in the Mexican War

4.

Zachary Taylor

10.

In the Compromise of 1850, California becomes a free state. What did the slave states get instead of one more slave state?

Hint look at #11 and select 2 options.

a)

All territories can vote to be a slave state when they become a state.

b)

A tail Kickin'

c)

The Fugitive Slave Act

d)

New York could vote to be a slave state.