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?

Michigan

New Mexico

Maine

Hawaii

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

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36 30

30 36

90 90

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

France

Spain

Mexico

Britain

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In the Compromise of 1850 what free state was added?

Texas

New Mexico

Indiana

California

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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 freed all the slaves in D.C.

It made slavery legal in Virginia

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

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

Northwest Territory

Puerto Rico

Alaska

In the Louisiana Purchase Territory

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Why did the Wilmot Proviso not pass in the Senate?

Florida was a free state

There were an equal number of slave and free states

Wilmot was a slave himself

The French supported slavery

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To break away from or leave

Secede

Colonize

Migrate

Evade

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

Sectionalism

Racism

Anti-Federalism

Nationalism

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False or misleading information in order to further a cause

Slander

Gossip

Propaganda

Libel

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a runaway slave

vagabond

fugitive

impress

migrator

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

New Mexico

Utah

California

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?

Popular Sovereignty (voting)

States with more than 1 million people would have slaves

Mexico would be a deciding vote

Slavery was abolished (done away with)

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

The 1850 Compromise

Missouri Compromise

The Treaty of Ghent

The Barbary pirates

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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 no power to tax or regulate interstate commerce

Congress could veto state laws at will

Congress required a simple majority to pass laws

Congress had a permanent standing army to enforce decisions

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