VUS.6e Sectional Tensions, Compromises, & Reforms

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

At the time of the Missouri Compromise, there were 11 free states and 11 slave states. Where would the balance between free and slave states become unbalanced if Missouri was accepted as a slave state?

• In the House of Representatives
• In the Senate
• In the Executive Branch
• In the Judicial Branch

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 added California as a slave state

What state would be added to the Union as a free state according to the Compromise of 1850

• Oregon

• California

• Michigan

• Iowa

According to the Compromise of 1850, What could New Mexico and Utah territories do?

• They could only join the Union as a free state.
• The people of the territory could decided where to allow slavery.
• They could only join the Union as a slave state.
• They could become their own nation.

How did the Kansas- Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

• It changed the borders of Missouri

• It required that all Missouri be free.

• It allowed slavery in Kansas and Nebraska Territories

• It established new interstate trade rules.

The WHAT was part of the Compromise of 1850 and made it a crime to help runaway slaves?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Fugitive Criminal Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• California-Maine Act

Allowing the people of a state or territory to rule for themselves.

• popular sovereignty

• states's rights

• suffrage

• spoils system

The belief that certain powers are retained by the states and cannot be overruled by the national government - used to defend slavery.

• popular sovereignty

• states's rights

• suffrage

• spoils system