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8 U.S. History Quiz on A Dividing Nation, created by Yoonju Julie Jung on 25/05/2013.
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Question 1

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How did Missouri's application as a slave state in 1819 challenge U.S. law?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 2

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Which was a fear of Southern senators if there were more free states than slave states?
Answer
  • losing respect
  • losing tax revenue
  • losing voting power
  • losing future elections

Question 3

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What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 4

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What was the significance of the 36*30' parallel?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 5

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According to the Wilmot Proviso of 1846, in which area was slavery banned?
Answer
  • Southern states
  • Northern states
  • Louisiana Territory
  • land acquired from Mexico

Question 6

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In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 7

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Which two people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery?
Answer
  • Daniel Webster and Henry Clay
  • James Polk and John Quincy Adams
  • Nat Turner and John Brown
  • Charles Sumner and Stephen A. Douglas

Question 8

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All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except
Answer
  • 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.

Question 9

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What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 10

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How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 11

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Which of these was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Answer
  • 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.
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