1. How did Missouri’s application as a slave state in 1819 challenge U.S. law? aIt did not have a state constitution.bStates west of the Mississippi River were to be slave states.cIt did not have the population required for statehood.dStates north of the Ohio River were to be free states.2. What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise? aIt temporarily ended the slavery debate.bIt required Southern states to pay higher taxes.cIt led to the South seceding from the Union.dIt upset the balance of slave and free states in the Union.3. What was the significance of the 36˚30´ parallel? aIt separated the North from the South.bIt indicated the northern border of Missouri.cIt showed the borders of the United States.dIt indicated where slavery was allowed and banned.4. Which was a fear of Southern senators if there were more free states than slave states? alosing respectblosing tax revenueclosing voting powerdlosing future elections5. According to the Wilmot Proviso of 1846, in which area was slavery banned? aSouthern statesbNorthern statescLouisiana Territorydland acquired from Mexico6. In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South? aIt created new taxes for railroad construction.bIt provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.cIt included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves.dIt required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.

6. Which of the following was a provision of the Missouri Compromise? A:A. Missouri could join the Union as a state with slavery. B:B. Missouri could join the Union as a free state. C:C. Maine could join the Union as a state with slavery. D:D. Maine and Missouri could join the Union as states with slavery.Turn In7. Why did abolitionists protest the "gag rule" of 1836? Transcript of the Missouri CompromiseAn Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the inhabitants of that portion of the Missouri territory included within the boundaries herein after designated, be, and they are hereby, authorized to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper; and the said state, when formed, shall be admitted into the Union, upon an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatsoever. . . . Section 8. And be it further enacted. That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude . . . shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited: Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labour or service is lawfully claimed, in any state or territory of the United States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labour or service as aforesaid. APPROVED, March 6, 1820. A:A. It prevented abolitionists from speaking against slavery. B:B. It silenced congressional debate about slavery. C:C. It attempted to ban abolitionist ideas in Missouri. D:D. It banned attacks against slavery in newspapers.Turn In

Congress passed the Missouri Compromise in 1820. What happened in 1849 that threatened to upset the balance between states with slavery and free states? A:A. California applied for admission to the Union as a free state.B:B. The people of Missouri voted to secede from the United States.C:C. Congress approved the Wilmot Proviso banning slavery in the Mexican Cession.D:D. Southerners succeeded in opening all of the Mexican Cession to slavery.

7. Which two people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery? aDaniel Webster and Henry ClaybJames Polk and John Quincy AdamscNat Turner and John BrowndCharles Sumner and Stephen A. Douglas8. All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except amany slaves moved to Canada.bNortherners refused to obey the law.chounded slave catchers returned to the South.dplantation owners did not want returned slaves.9. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise? aIt changed the borders of Missouri.bIt required that all of Missouri be free.cIt allowed slavery in new Northern territories.dIt established new interstate trade rules.10. Which of these was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? aIt led to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas.bIt settled the slavery issue in Nebraska.cIt calmed the country's dispute over slavery.dIt required that the new territories would be free states.11. What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case? athat slavery diminished the national characterbthat African American rights were protected by the Constitutioncthat African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal courtdthat slavery should be abolished by executive order12. What did John Brown hope to achieve by his raid at Harpers Ferry? ato create a slave rebellion that would bring an end to slaverybto bring attention to the conflict between the North and the Southcto bring the two sides together to form a new compromisedto create a revolution that would lead to a war between the states13. How did the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 impact Lincoln’s political future? aHe won the senate race in Illinois.bHe became known throughout the nation.cHe was seen as a poor candidate for public office.dHe felt discouraged and removed himself from politics for a time.

How was the Compromise of 1850 different from the Missouri Compromise? A. It mostly ignored slavery to focus on other issues. B. It admitted a new state that banned slavery into the union. C. It greatly benefited the North at the expense of the South. D. It allowed new states to vote on whether to allow slavery.

2. Rewrite John Quincy Adams’s diary entry to explain how he felt about the Missouri Compromise.I have favored this Missouri compromise, believing it to be all that could be effected [accomplished] under the present Constitution, and from extreme unwillingness to put the Union at hazard [risk]. If the Union must be dissolved, slavery is precisely the question on which it ought to break. For the present, however, the contest is laid asleep.