Missouri Compromise
This state entered the Union to balance Missouri?
A. Missouri
B. Maine
C. New York
D. Ohio
B. Maine
This state entered as free under the compromise.
A. Texas
B. Utah
C. New Mexico
D. California
D. California
This idea let settlers vote on slavery.
A. Free soil
B. State rights
C. Popular sovereignty
D. Mob rule
C. Popular sovereignty
The law required this group to help capture enslaved people.
A. Police only
B. Slave catchers
C. Southern states
D. All citizens
D. All citizens
This author wrote the novel.
A. Frederick Douglass
B. Harriet Beecher Stowe
C. Sojourner Truth
D. Louisa May Alcott
B. Harriet Beecher Stowe
The compromise tried to maintain this between states.
A. Tax fairness
B. Trade equality
C. Slave balance
D. Political parties
C. Slave balance
Slavery was ended here, but not the nation.
A. Border states
B. Washington, D.C.
C. Northern states
D. Western territories
B. Washington, D.C.
This earlier compromise was overturned.
A. Great Compromise
B. Three-Fifths Compromise
C. Missouri Compromise
D. Compromise of 1850
C. Missouri Compromise
Judges were paid more for doing this.
A. Ignoring cases
B. Delaying trials
C. Returning enslaved
D. Freeing people
C. Returning enslaved
The book showed the cruelty of this system.
A. Factory labor
B. Tenant farming
C. Slavery
D. Sharecropping
C. Slavery
This line divided free and enslaved states.\
A. Mason Line
B. Ohio River
C. Mississippi Line
D. 36°30′ line
D. 36°30′ line
This law was strengthened to capture freedom seekers.
A. Slave Codes
B. Emancipation Act
C. Popular Sovereignty Act
D. Fugitive Slave Law
D. Fugitive Slave Law
Armed groups crossed from Missouri to vote illegally were called what?
A. Carpetbaggers
B. Fire-eaters
C. Border ruffians
D. Copperheads
C. Border ruffians
Many Northerners reacted with this.
A. Support
B. Celebration
C. Indifference
D. Anger
D. Anger
This character owned Uncle Tom.
A. Judge Taylor
B. Simon Legree
C. Simon Brown
D. John Calhoun
B. Simon Legree
Missouri wanted to enter as this type of state.
A. Free territory
B. Neutral state
C. Slave state
D. Territory
C. Slave state
Southern states threatened this if slavery ended.
A. Revolution
B. Secession
C. Compromise
D. Nullification
B. Secession
This senator pushed the act through Congress.
A. Stephen Douglas
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Henry Clay
D. John Calhoun
A. Stephen Douglas
Some juries refused to do this.
A. Convict helpers
B. Hear cases
C. Enforce law
D. Accept evidence
A. Convict helpers
People in this region thought the book was a lie and slander.
A. Midwest
B. South
C. West
D. Border states
B. South
This senator proposed the Missouri Compromise.
A. Henry Clay
B. Stephen Douglas
C. John Calhoun
D. Daniel Webster
A. Henry Clay
This senator helped Clay pass the compromise.
A. Andrew Jackson
B. Stephen Douglas
C. John Brown
D. Zachary Taylor
B. Stephen Douglas
Violence in Kansas earned this nickname.
A. Broken Kansas
B. Red Territory
C. Bloody Fields
D. Bleeding Kansas
D. Bleeding Kansas
People who helped freedom seekers faced this punishment.
A. Heavy fines
B. Loss of property
C. Jail time
D. Forced labor
C. Jail time
President Lincoln said the book helped start this.
A. Emancipation
B. Reconstruction
C. Abolition
D. Civil War
D. Civil War