Which is the best summary of the Missouri Compromise?
(1 point)
• To resolve the conflict between large and small states, Congress was given two houses.
• To resolve the issue of the extension of slavery into the Louisiana Territory, a line was drawn dividing future free and slave states.
• To resolve the dispute between free and slave states, each slave was counted as threefiths of a person for purposes of both taxation and representation.
• To resolve the issue of the admission of California as a free state, a tougher fugitive slave law was enacted.
To resolve the issue of the extension of slavery into the Louisiana Territory, a line was drawn dividing future free and slave states.
In what way did Uncle Tom's Cabin change the attitude of Northerners about slavery?
(1 point)
• 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.
They began to view it as a moral problem.
"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
Use the passage to answer the question.
What does the author mean in saying that popular sovereignty "undermined the Missouri compromise"?
(1 point)
• It maintained the division of free and slave states,
• It expanded slavery to the Norther 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.
It reopened debate over the border between free and slave states.
As leader of the Republican Party, Lincoln was outspoken in his views on slavery and expressed them during the debates of 1858. Which of the following would best fit with his position?
(1 point)
• Compromise of 1850
• Wilmot Proviso
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott decision
Wilmot Proviso
Which two of the following were strategies used by the Union during the Civil War?
(4 points)
• naval blockade
• defensive war
• seizing control of the Mississippi River
• relying on European countries for supplies
- naval blockade
- seizing control of the Mississippi River
Which characteristic ultimately led to General McClellan's replacement as Commander of the Union army?
(1 point)
• his organizational ability
• his cautious nature on the battlefield
• his reckless nature on the battlefield
• his failure at the first Battle of Bull Run