25-26 USHA Unit 7 Test Review

What was the primary purpose of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• To negotiate the Oregon boundary with Britain

• To abolish slavery in all states

• To annex Texas as a state

• To maintain the balance of power in Congress

Which line was established as a boundary for future slave and free states in the Missouri Compromise?

• 38th parallel

• Mason-Dixon Line

• 36°30' Line

• 49th parallel

Locate the territory where slavery was prohibited according to the Missouri Compromise.

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What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest destiny 
• Monroe Doctrine 
• Great Awakening 
• Louisiana Purchase

Match the vocabulary word to the correct definition

• the ability to vote

• Sufferage

• movement to ban slavery

• Abolitionism

• decision based on voting

• Popular sovereignty

Identify which territory will cause war to break out between the United States and Mexico.

What was the result of the Mexican-American War?

• The U.S. annexed Canada

• Mexico gained control of California

• The U.S. acquired territories in the Southwest

• The U.S. lost Texas

Based on the map and your knowledge of the Compromise of 1850, which outcomes resulted from this compromise?

Select TWO correct answers.

• California was admitted into the union as a free state.

• A parallel was designated as the boundary between free and slave states.

• Southern state legislatures failed to get a new fugitive-slave law passed.

• New territories were given the power to decide the issue of slavery.

• The Florida territory was purchased from Spain and admitted as a free state.

In the Compromise of 1850, which of the following required Northerners to help return runaway slaves?

• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1820
• Fugitive Slave Law
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Click on the two areas in 1854 where the people would vote to choose whether or not to allow slavery.