Unit 7/Lesson 21 Test Review

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

• It did not have a state constitution.
• States west of the Mississippi River were to be states with slavery.
• It did not have the population required for statehood.
• States north of the Ohio River were to be free states.

2. What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

• 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 states with and without slavery.

3. What was the significance of the 36˚30´ parallel?

• It separated the North from the South.
• It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned.
• It showed the borders of the United States.
• It indicated the northern border of Missouri.

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

• losing respect
• losing tax revenue
• losing voting power
• losing future elections

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

• It provided an end to the trade of enslaved people in Washington, D.C.
• It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.
• It included a law requiring the return of people who had escaped slavery.

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

• plantation owners did not want enslaved people returned.
• People who caught fugitives from slavery were driven back to the South.
• Northerners refused to obey the law.
• many enslaved people moved to Canada.

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

• It caused enslaved people to 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.

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

• It changed the borders of Missouri.
• It allowed slavery in new Northern territories.
• It required that all of Missouri be free.
• It established new interstate trade rules.

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

• 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.

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

• that slavery diminished the national character
• that African American rights were protected by the Constitution
• that African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court
• that slavery should be abolished by executive order