Causes of the US Civil War part 1 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Missouri Compromise, Wilmot Proviso, Free Soil Party, Compromise of 1850, and Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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Under the Missouri Compromise which state was added as a free state?

Maine

Hawaii

New Mexico

Michigan

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According to the Missouri Compromise what was the line of latitude that separated free from slave?

30 36

36 30

3.14

90 90

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David Wilmot came up with a proposal to ban slavery from all lands gained from what country?

Britain

Mexico

France

Spain

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In the Compromise of 1850 what free state was added?

New Mexico

Texas

Indiana

California

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In the Compromise of 1850 what happened with the slave trade in Washington DC?

It was abolished (but Congress could not ban slave trade bet

It created the Fugitive Slave Act

It freed all the slaves in D.C.

It made slavery legal in Virginia

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The Missouri Compromise line that separated free from slave only applied where?

In the Louisiana Purchase Territory

Alaska

Northwest Territory

Puerto Rico

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Why did the Wilmot Proviso not pass in the Senate?

Wilmot was a slave himself

There were an equal number of slave and free states

The French supported slavery

Florida was a free state

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To break away from or leave

Colonize

Migrate

Evade

Secede

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Identifying with or having loyalty to a region or state instead of the country as a whole

Nationalism

Racism

Anti-Federalism

Sectionalism

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False or misleading information in order to further a cause

Slander

Propaganda

Libel

Gossip

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a runaway slave

fugitive

vagabond

impress

migrator

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In the Compromise of 1850 a border dispute was settled between Texas and what territory?

California

Arizona

New Mexico

Utah

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In the Compromise of 1850 how was the issue of slavery going to be decided in the Utah and New Mexico territories?

Mexico would be a deciding vote

Slavery was abolished (done away with)

States with more than 1 million people would have slaves

Popular Sovereignty (voting)

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act did away with what compromise passed in 1820?

The 1850 Compromise

The Barbary pirates

The Treaty of Ghent

Missouri Compromise

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Which weakness of the Articles of Confederation made it difficult for Congress to resolve disputes between states over taxes and trade?

Congress required a simple majority to pass laws

Congress had no power to tax or regulate interstate commerce

Congress had a permanent standing army to enforce decisions

Congress could veto state laws at will

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