Why did Northern newpapers criticize the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

repealed the 36,30 line set up by the Missouri Compromise

What was the reason for the development of sectional differences throughout the U.S in the mid 1800s?

economic factors and differences in each region

How did the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin help lead to the Civil War?

It made Northerners dislike slavery even more

Many Southern political leaders were happy with the Supreme Court decisions in Dred Scott v. Sanford because it:

protected the property righs of slave owners in territories.

What nation was formed when the South broke away from the North?

The Confederate States of America

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Why did Northern newpapers criticize the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
admitted Maine to the Union as a free state
limited the settlement on those territories
repealed the 36,30 line set up by the Missouri Compromise
upheld the Supreme Court decision in Gibbons v. Ogden
2
This amendment was used by Sourthern states as the legal basis for their right to secede:
27th amendment
10th amendment
1st amendment
5th amendment
3
Why couldn't Dred Scott sue in a U.S. court?
He was not a citizen
His owner didn't give him permission
He was African American
He was not a property owner
4
President Lincoln referred to Harriet Beecher Stowe as "the little lady who made the big war." Why
She helped deliver aid in Georgia
She was a newspaper reporter
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
She led the Underground Railroad
5
Which means of protest usually was least helpful to the abolition movement?
newspapers
violence
speeches
personal narratives
6
What was the reason for the development of sectional differences throughout the U.S in the mid 1800s?
the U.S. government had a policy of neutrality
only people from the North were at the Constitutional Convention
our early Presidents wanted urban areas over rural areas
economic factors and differences in each region
7
Which was the first state to break away from the United States?
South Carolina
Texas
Mississippi
Virginia
8
How did the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin help lead to the Civil War?
It made Northerners dislike slavery even more
It made Congress ban the importation of slaves
Put pressure on the President to support the abolition of slavery
showed the dangers of manufacturing cotton
9
Many Southern political leaders were happy with the Supreme Court decisions in Dred Scott v. Sanford because it:
protected the property righs of slave owners in territories.
upheld the idea of popular sovereignty
granted citizenship to all slaves
supported the rights of states to secede from the Union
10
What nation was formed when the South broke away from the North?
The Southern States of the United States
The Union
The Confederate States of America
The Southern Union of the United States
11
In the Compromise of 1850 California was admitted to the United States as a:
Slave State
California never became a state
Decided the issue of slavery by Popular Sovereignty
Free State

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