The legislative package known as the Compromise of 1850 postponed the Civil War by a decade. However, like the 1820 Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850 failed to resolve the question of slavery in a meaningful way. Over the course of the 1850s, the inadequacies of both measures were made painfully clear. 'Popular sovereignty' undermined the Missouri compromise by suggesting the earlier division of the country along the thirty-sixth parallel into free states and slave states no longer applied. Indeed, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 permitted slavery. The resulting bloodshed in Kansas, like later incidents at Harper's Ferry, presaged the violent conflict of the Civil War."

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The legislative package known as the Compromise of 1850 postponed the Civil War by a decade. However, like the 1820 Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850 failed to resolve the question of slavery in a meaningful way. Over the course of the 1850s, the inadequacies of both measures were made painfully clear. 'Popular sovereignty' undermined the Missouri compromise by suggesting the earlier division of the country along the thirty-sixth parallel into free states and slave states no longer applied. Indeed, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 permitted slavery. The resulting bloodshed in Kansas, like later incidents at Harper's Ferry, presaged the violent conflict of the Civil War."

—Library of Congress
Question
Use the passage to answer the question.
What does the author mean in saying that popular sovereignty "undermined the Missouri compromise”?

It maintained the division of free and slave states.

It expanded slavery to the Northern free states.

It forced slaves who had escaped to be returned to a slave state.

It reopened debate over the border between free and slave states.

Answer 1

The author means that popular sovereignty suggested that the previous division of the country along the thirty-sixth parallel into free states and slave states, as established by the Missouri Compromise, was no longer applicable. This undermined the Missouri Compromise and reopened debate over the border between free and slave states.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The answer is: It reopened debate over the border between free and slave states.

Answer 4

In what way did Uncle Tom’s Cabin change the attitude of Northerners about slavery?

They began to view it as a political problem.

They began to view it as an economic problem.

They began to view it as a moral problem.

They began to feel it was none of their concern.

Answer 5

Uncle Tom's Cabin changed the attitude of Northerners about slavery by making them view it as a moral problem.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The answer is: They began to view it as a moral problem.

Answer 8

Which of the following laws would the Free-Soil Party have supported?

cottonocracy

slave codes

Wilmot Proviso

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 9