Road to the Civil War (2020)

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Which compromise is described by these clues?
- Made Missouri a slave state & Maine a free state
- created to keep balance of free & slave states
- territories north of 36 30' latitude would be free

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Missouri Compromise

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Which compromise is described by these clues?
- California entered U.S. as a free state
- Fugitive Slave Law
- The slave trade would be abolished in Washington DC

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Compromise of 1850

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What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act decide about slavery in the Kansas & Nebraska territories?

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slavery was based on popular sovereignty

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The Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) had an important effect on life in the United States because the decision-

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ruled that slavery was constitutional and could spread into new territories

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What issue did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all try to solve?

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The extension of slavery in the western territories

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As a result of the Election of 1860, which state seceded first? Options: North Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, South Carolina

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South Carolina

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What is John Brown's claim to fame?

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radical abolitionist responsible for Bleeding Kansas and the Raid on Harpers Ferry

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When South Carolina and other Southern states seceded, who did they elect President and what did they call themselves?

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Jefferson Davis; Confederate States of America

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The South got a tougher one of these slave laws in Compromise of 1850: POLICE FORCE, FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW, PENAL CODE, NONE OF THE ABOVE

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FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW

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The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states.  North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, South of the line slavery was _________.

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prohibited, permitted or allowed