TCI Lesson 21: A Dividing Nation

How did Missouri's application as a slave state in 1819 challenge U.S. Law?

• It violated the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

• States north of the Ohio River were to be free states.

• It was supported by the majority of northern states.

• It allowed for the expansion of slavery into new territories.

An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a state with slavery and Maine was admitted as a state without slavery

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Great Debates of 1858

• Illinois Senate Showdown

• Debates on Slavery

What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

• It temporarily ended the slavery debate.

• It led to the immediate abolition of slavery in all states.

• It increased tensions between the North and South.

• It established the principle of popular sovereignty.

A person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery).

• fugitive

• prisoner

• refugee

• immigrant

Which was the first state to secede from the Union?

• South Carolina

• Virginia

• Texas

• Georgia

What did the Missouri Compromise authorize the people of the Missouri Territory to do?

• form a state government

• establish a military base

• create a new territory

• join the Union as a free state

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• It turned many people against slavery.

• It had no significant impact on public opinion.

• It increased support for the abolitionist movement.

• It was primarily a commercial success without social implications.

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 required the Underground Railroad to be disbanded

Which event turned the secession crisis into a civil war?

• the election of Abraham Lincoln

• South Carolina's shelling of Fort Sumter

• John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

• Preston Brooks's attack on Charles Sumner