The Missouri Compromise of 1820 resulted in:
any state above the 36-30′ parallel would be a free state
any state below the 36-30′ parallel could be a slave state
a balance of power in Congress between slave and free states
all of the above
The passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in:
popular sovereignty in any new state
the formation of the new Republican Party
a war in Kansas between two competing state governments
all of the above
What was the primary reason that most northerners did NOT support the expansion of slavery in the new territories?
slavery was immoral
environmental concerns about land usage
slavery undermined the ability of poor whites to earn a wage.
moral concerns about taking more land from Native groups
The central platform of the new Republican Party was:
to protect free labor in new territories
to end slavery
to expand the borders of the U.S.
to reopen international slave trade
In his letter to Thomas Auld, it becomes clear that Auld was Frederick Douglass’s ________.
brother
former enslaver
captor
liberator
In “The Threat of Slavery in the Territorial West,” the freesoiler is depicted as a(n) ________.
wealthy white man
ordinary white man
free black man
enslaved black man
In his majority opinion in Dred Scott Sandford, Roger Taney ruled that ________.
Group of answer choices
states’ rights are superseded by federal law
enslaved persons cannot be freed
Congress ulimately has the power to determine a person’s status
an enslaved person did not become free by going to a free state
In “The Impending Crisis of the South,” Hinton Helper argued that ________ has worked against progress in the South.
free trade
low cotton prices
slavery
export tariffs
In his speech of August 21, 1848, Abraham Lincoln argued that blacks and whites ________.
should live together in equality
should have the same natural rights
cannot live in the same nation
are political equals
In his speech of October 15, 1858, Abraham Lincoln likened slaveholders and pro-slavery advocates to ________.
freesoilers
recent immigrants
wage laborers
monarchs
