Chapter 20 Review
1. When Missouri applied to become a state in 1819
A. it did not matter if Missouri entered the Union as a slave or free state.
B. the main issue was whether or not to admit Missouri as a slave state.
C. the number of senators in the Senate was equally balanced between slave and free states.
D. the number of representatives in the House of Representatives was equally balanced
between slave and free states.
E. people from free states were afraid that slavery would spread across the territory acquired
in the Louisiana purchase.
F. James Tallmadge of New York proposed an amendment that would permit Missouri to
enter the Union as a free state.
G. people in slave states were afraid that if slavery could be banned in Missouri, that slavery
could be banned everywhere.
H. the Congress was deadlocked over what to do.
I. people in free states were saying that it was time for slave states and free states to
separate and become two separate nations.
2. The Missouri Compromise
A. allowed Mississippi to enter as a slave state.
B. allowed Maine to enter as a free state.
C. allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state.
D. drew a line at latitude 36° 30' all the way to the Pacific coast and said that states formed
north of that line would be free states.
E. allowed California to enter as a free state.
3. Which of the following issues led to the unraveling of the Missouri Compromise between
1820 and 1850?
A. Slavery in Washington D. C.
B. The unwillingness of Congress to deal with any bill having to do with slavery.
C. Slaves running away to the North.
D. The unwillingness of northerners to return runaway slaves to their masters in the South.
E. The Dred Scott case.
F. Slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico.
G. Statehood for California.
4. The Compromise of 1850
A. was proposed by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster (both senators from free states).
B. was proposed by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster (both senators from slave states).
C. was proposed by Henry Clay (a senator from a slave state) and Daniel Webster (a senator
from a free state).
D. admitted California as a free state.
E. made the Utah Territory (north of the Missouri Compromise line) free and the New
Mexico Territory (south of the Missouri Compromise line) slave.
F. ended the slave trade in Washington D.C.
G. freed all slaves in Washington D.C.
H. resulted in the passage of a fugitive slave law.
5. The Fugitive Slave Law
A. satisfied northerners but frustrated southerners.
B. frustrated northerners but satisfied southerners.
C. satisfied both northerners and southerners.
D. frustrated both northerners and southerners.
6. Harriet Beecher Stowe's book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
A. turned millions of northerners against slavery.
B. helped many northerners who had never seen a slave understand what slavery was really
like.
C. sold more copies in the South than in the North.
7. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
A. was proposed by Daniel Webster (a senator from a free state).
B. made Kansas a free territory and Nebraska a slave territory.
C. included the idea of "popular sovereignty."
D. allowed the people of the two territories to decide if new states from those territories
would be free or slave.
E. led to violence in Kansas and in Congress.
8. In the Dred Scott decision
A. Congress said that Dred Scott was still a slave.
B. it was determined that no African-American was or ever could be a citizen of the U.S.
C. it was determined that slavery could exist South of the latitude 36° 30'.
D. it was determined that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
E. it was determined that slavery could exist in any territory West of the Mississippi.
9. Abraham Lincoln
A. saw slavery as a legal issue more than a moral issue.
B. said the U.S. could not survive half-slave and half-free.
C. never lost an election.
D. was seen by southerners as a threat to the existence of slavery in the South.
E. was the first president elected from what is now the Republican Party.
F. offered a compromise on slavery: he would not interfere with slavery in the South, he
would enforce the Fugitive Slave law, but he would not allow slavery in the territories.
10. Secession
A. is the act of withdrawing from an organization; in this case a state withdrawing from the
Union of states.
B. was first declared in Charleston, S.C. on December 20, 1860.
C. led to the firing of the first shots of the Civil War by northern troop on southern troops
who had taken over Ft. Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
D. was accepted by Lincoln as the right of a state.