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Causes of the US Civil War part 1

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  • To break away from or leave
    Colonize
    Migrate
    Evade
    Secede
  • Under the Missouri Compromise which state was added as a free state?
    Michigan
    Hawaii
    New Mexico
    Maine
  • In the Compromise of 1850 how was the issue of slavery going to be decided in the Utah and New Mexico territories?
    Slavery was abolished (done away with)
    Mexico would be a deciding vote
    Popular Sovereignty (voting)
    States with more than 1 million people would have slaves
  • Identifying with or having loyalty to a region or state instead of the country as a whole
    Anti-Federalism
    Racism
    Nationalism
    Sectionalism
  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act did away with what compromise passed in 1820?
    The 1850 Compromise
    Missouri Compromise
    The Barbary pirates
    The Treaty of Ghent
  • False or misleading information in order to further a cause
    Libel
    Gossip
    Slander
    Propaganda
  • According to the Missouri Compromise what was the line of latitude that separated free from slave?
    3.14
    30 36
    90 90
    36 30
  • David Wilmot came up with a proposal to ban slavery from all lands gained from what country?
    Spain
    France
    Mexico
    Britain
  • 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 made slavery legal in Virginia
    It freed all the slaves in D.C.
  • a runaway slave
    vagabond
    fugitive
    migrator
    impress
  • In the Compromise of 1850 a border dispute was settled between Texas and what territory?
    Arizona
    California
    Utah
    New Mexico
  • 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 could veto state laws at will
    Congress had no power to tax or regulate interstate commerce
    Congress had a permanent standing army to enforce decisions
  • The Missouri Compromise line that separated free from slave only applied where?
    Northwest Territory
    Puerto Rico
    Alaska
    In the Louisiana Purchase Territory
  • Why did the Wilmot Proviso not pass in the Senate?
    The French supported slavery
    There were an equal number of slave and free states
    Florida was a free state
    Wilmot was a slave himself
  • In the Compromise of 1850 what free state was added?
    Texas
    Indiana
    California
    New Mexico
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