Antebellum America

Due to the climate of this region, farming of cash crops was their main economy.

• South
• North
• East
• West

More immigrants settled in this region due to the job opportunities. 

• North
• South
• East
• West

Popular sovereignty was the idea that

• the people would vote to decide if their state would have slavery.

• slavery would be banned in all future states.

• the government would decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

• slavery would be allowed in every future state.

Which states entry into the Union created the crisis leading to the Compromise of 1850?

• Missouri

• California

• Kansas

• Arkansas

Compromise that made a division on the 36 degree 30 Latitude Line to determine slavery versus free states in the Louisiana Territory.

• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision

Agreement that allowed the people to exercise their popular sovereignty to decide whether the area would be free or slave.

• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision

Compromise that included a Fugitive Slave Law to return slaves to Southern slave owners if they ran away.

• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision

Compromise that banned slave trade (not slavery) in Washington, D.C.

• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision

He led a slave rebellion that shocked Southerners and led to strict new laws for slaves.

• Harrison Ford
• Dred Scott
• Nat Turner
• Milton Hershey

Why was cotton referred to as "King" by the 1830s in America?

• The growing of cotton had arisen from a command by King William IV of England

• Cotton was a multi-purpose product that boosted the supply of food, clothing, and building materials

• Cotton production represented the United States' number one commodity for domestic use and export

• High levels of cotton was grown in every section of the U.S., North, South, and West