Missouri Compromise Flashcard

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How did Missouri’s application as a state with slavery in 1819 challenge U.S. law?

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States west of the Mississippi River were to be states with slavery.

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What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise? Select the letter next to the best answer.

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It upset the balance of states with and without slavery.

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What was the significance of the 36°30′ parallel?

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It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned.

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What did Southern senators fear would happen if there were more free states than states with slavery?

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losing voting power

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

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land acquired from Mexico

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In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South? Options: It created new taxes for railroad construction. It provided an end to the trade of enslaved people in Washington, D.C. It included a law requiring the return of people who had escaped slavery. It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.

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It included a law requiring the return of people who had escaped slavery.

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All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except: many enslaved people moved to Canada; Northerners refused to obey the law; People who caught fugitives from slavery were driven back to the South.

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plantation owners did not want enslaved people returned.

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What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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It turned many more people against slavery.

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

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It led to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas.

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What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?

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that African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court