Towards Civil War

The North and the South began to have feelings for their own region. This is called?

• secede

• patriotism

• sectionalism

• diplomacy

In the Missouri Compromise this state entered as a slave state:

• Maine

• Missouri

The Senate is part of this branch of government:

• Judicial

• Executive

• Legislative

The Compromise of 1850 was broken up into several parts by what Senator?

• John C. Calhoun

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Henry Clay

• Zachary Taylor

Under the Compromise of 1850 this state entered the Union as a free state:

• Texas

• Maine

• Missouri

• California

Because of the imbalance of power in the Senate, what event created the need for a compromise?

• California's admission as a free state

• creation of Kansas and Nebraska territories

• Texas admitted as a slave state

• annexation of Texas

Which was a gain for the south as a result of the Compromise of 1850?

• more electoral votes

• Fugitive Slave Act

• adding more representatives in Congress

• Congress agreed to not pass slave laws and stronger fugitive slave laws/

The Kansas-Nebraska Act attempted to solve the slavery issue in the territories by:

• enforcing the Missouri Compromise boundary line

• Congress would make separate laws about slavery

• popular sovereignty

Which is related to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Wilmot Proviso

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Bleeding Kansas

• John Brown

Northerners felt that slavery was:

• immoral

• moral

• Against the law