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Causes of the US Civil War part 1

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  • Identifying with or having loyalty to a region or state instead of the country as a whole
    Racism
    Nationalism
    Sectionalism
    Anti-Federalism
  • Which weakness of the Articles of Confederation made it difficult for Congress to resolve disputes between states over taxes and trade?
    Congress could veto state laws at will
    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
  • 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
    Slavery was abolished (done away with)
    Mexico would be a deciding vote
  • David Wilmot came up with a proposal to ban slavery from all lands gained from what country?
    Spain
    Britain
    Mexico
    France
  • To break away from or leave
    Colonize
    Secede
    Migrate
    Evade
  • According to the Missouri Compromise what was the line of latitude that separated free from slave?
    90 90
    3.14
    36 30
    30 36
  • In the Compromise of 1850 what free state was added?
    Texas
    Indiana
    California
    New Mexico
  • In the Compromise of 1850 a border dispute was settled between Texas and what territory?
    Utah
    Arizona
    California
    New Mexico
  • False or misleading information in order to further a cause
    Propaganda
    Gossip
    Slander
    Libel
  • Why did the Wilmot Proviso not pass in the Senate?
    Wilmot was a slave himself
    The French supported slavery
    There were an equal number of slave and free states
    Florida was a free state
  • a runaway slave
    impress
    migrator
    fugitive
    vagabond
  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act did away with what compromise passed in 1820?
    The 1850 Compromise
    The Barbary pirates
    The Treaty of Ghent
    Missouri Compromise
  • Under the Missouri Compromise which state was added as a free state?
    Hawaii
    New Mexico
    Michigan
    Maine
  • In the Compromise of 1850 what happened with the slave trade in Washington DC?
    It created the Fugitive Slave Act
    It made slavery legal in Virginia
    It was abolished (but Congress could not ban slave trade bet
    It freed all the slaves in D.C.
  • The Missouri Compromise line that separated free from slave only applied where?
    Northwest Territory
    In the Louisiana Purchase Territory
    Alaska
    Puerto Rico
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