Divisions Grow
The Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fort Sumter
100
In 1819, Missouri wanted to join the Union as what type of of state, slave state or free state?
In 1820, it was decided to make Missouri join the Union as a slave state.
100
In 1820, Henry Clay came up with what?
The Missouri Compromise
100
Why did the southern states not want California to join the Union as a free state?
They feared that the north would take control of Congress and that Congress would outlaw slavery everywhere
100
BONUS: Instead of approving of two new free states, the government declared what?
Popular sovereignty
100
The states that seceded from the Union are called what?
The Confederacy
200
What did the North feel about slavery?
That it should go no farther than it had
200
Which state was admitted into the Union as a free state, and also helped maintain the balance of free states and slave states?
Maine
200
What compromise did Henry Clay make for the decision of California?
The Compromise of 1850
200
What was the type of transportation did they decide to make, that started the problem Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Transcontinental Railroad
200
Who was the president for the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
300
What did the south feel about slavery?
The southern slave owners believed they had the right to take their enslaved workers wherever they wanted
300
BONUS: Also with the Missouri Compromise, Henry Clay created what to seperate the north and south of slavery?
Compromise Line
300
What did California want to join the Union as, a free state or slave state?
Free state
300
Was outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska act violent?
Yes
300
Was Fort Sumter the Union's property or the Confederacy's?
The Union's property
400
Once a territory had __,___ people, it could apply to become a state.
60,000
400
BONUS: Because of his work to settle the differences between the north and south, Clay was known as what?
The Great Compromiser
400
BONUS: Until what year did the number of free states and slave states remained equal?
1848
400
BONUS: When was the Kansas-Nebraska act created?
1854
400
When was Fort Sumter attacked?
April 12, 1861 or 1861
500
What kept the balance between the north and southern states, what changed that?
Having an equal number of free states and slave states, Missouri wanting to join the Union
500
BONUS: For how many years did the Missouri Compromise keep its peace between the north and south?
30 years
500
BONUS: In order for California to enter the Union as a free state, The Compromise of 1850 guarenteed the south what?
The other new lands from the Mexican Cession divided into two territories ---New Mexico and Utah
500
What is a common nickname for Kansas?
"Bleeding Kansas"
500
BONUS: After the attack which four states seceded from the Union?
Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia
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