A) as a free state if all territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase were admitted as slave states B) as a slave state and Maine as a free state C) as a free state but allowed current slaveholders to keep their slaves D) as a slave state, provided that all enslaved people in Missouri be given their freedom within 10 years
A) whigs B) free-soilers C) democrats D) republicans
A) the New Mexico Territroy would have no restrictions on slavery B) all of the above C) California would be admitted to the Union as a free state D) the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia
A) Daniel Webster B) John C. Calhoun C) Henry Clay D) David Wilmot
A) protected enslaved people B) required citizens to catch runaways C) was supported in the North D) punished slaveholders
A) Congress B) the president C) citizens of Kansas and Nebraska D) the Underground Railroad
A) "The Civil War in Kansas" B) "Marching to Kansas" C) "The Crime Against Kansas" D) "Bleeding Kansas"
A) prohibited in Missouri B) allowed in former Mexican lands. C) banned in former Mexican lands D) allowed in Missouri
A) democracy B) slavery C) public education D) immigration
A) an enslaved person was property. B) all of the above C) an enslaved person was not a citizen, and had no right to bring a lawsuit. D) living on free soil did not make an enslaved person free.
A) Compromise of 1850 B) Dred Scott Act C) Kansas-Nebraska Act D) Fugitive Slave Act
A) Stephen A. Douglas B) Daniel Webster C) John C. Calhoun D) Frederick Douglass
A) Harpers Ferry, Virginia B) Freeport, Illinois C) Fort Sumter, South Carolina D) Richmond, Virginia
A) Robert E. Lee B) Francis Pickens C) Jefferson Davis D) John C. Calhoun
A) Union forces B) the South Carolina militia C) Confederate forces D) National Guard troops
A) disobey unpopular federal laws. B) recall its representatives in Congress C) organize an armed civilian militia D) secede from the Union
A) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention. B) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure. C) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state. D) Lincolns speech to congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws.
A) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure. B) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state. C) Lincolns speech to Congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws. D) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention.
A) Slaves would count as three/fifths of population. Passed during constitutional convention. B) Lincolns speech to Congress asking to agree with the new anti-slavery laws. C) Missouri accepted into union as slave state and maine as free state. D) 1787 aka The Sherman Compromise was agreement between large & small states created a bicameral structure.
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