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?

New Mexico

Maine

Michigan

Hawaii

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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?

France

Mexico

Spain

Britain

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In the Compromise of 1850 what free state was added?

Texas

California

New Mexico

Indiana

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

It created the Fugitive Slave Act

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

It made slavery legal in Virginia

It freed all the slaves in D.C.

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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?

There were an equal number of slave and free states

Wilmot was a slave himself

The French supported slavery

Florida was a free state

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To break away from or leave

Migrate

Evade

Colonize

Secede

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

Anti-Federalism

Sectionalism

Racism

Nationalism

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False or misleading information in order to further a cause

Gossip

Slander

Propaganda

Libel

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a runaway slave

fugitive

impress

vagabond

migrator

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

New Mexico

California

Utah

Arizona

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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 Treaty of Ghent

The Barbary pirates

Missouri Compromise

The 1850 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 had a permanent standing army to enforce decisions

Congress required a simple majority to pass laws

Congress could veto state laws at will

Congress had no power to tax or regulate interstate commerce

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