How did Missouri's application as a slave state in 1819 challenge U.S. law?
It did not have a state constitution.
States west of the Mississippi River were to be slave states.
It did not have the population required for statehood.
States north of the Ohio River were to be free states.
Which was a fear of Southern senators if there were more free states than slave states?
losing respect
losing tax revenue
losing voting power
losing future elections
What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?
It temporarily ended the slavery debate.
It required Southern states to pay higher taxes.
It led to the South seceding from the Union.
It upset the balance of slave and free states in the Union.
What was the significance of the 36*30' parallel?
It separated the North from the South.
It indicated the northern border of Missouri.
It showed the borders of the United States.
It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned.
According to the Wilmot Proviso of 1846, in which area was slavery banned?
Southern states
Northern states
Louisiana Territory
land acquired from Mexico
In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?
It created new taxes for railroad construction.
It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves.
It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.
Which two people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery?
Daniel Webster and Henry Clay
James Polk and John Quincy Adams
Nat Turner and John Brown
Charles Sumner and Stephen A. Douglas
All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except
many slaves moved to Canada.
Northerners refused to obey the law.
hounded slave catchers returned to the South.
plantation owners did not want returned slaves.
What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
It created a slave revolt in Kentucky.
It turned many more people against slavery.
Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished.
The South became more resolved to secede from the Union.
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?
It changed the borders of Missouri.
It required that all of Missouri be free.
It allowed slavery in new Northern territories.
It established new interstate trade rules.
Which of these was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It led to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas.
It settled the slavery issue in Nebraska.
It calmed the country's dispute over slavery.
It required that the new territories would be free states.
