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Causes of the US Civil War part 1

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