Civics-Acts-MyTest-02

Which COMPETENCY was used to compose this question?

Northern and Southern states clashed over whether a territory would be admitted as a slave state. Northern representatives proposed an amendment for gradual emancipation that Southerners fiercely opposed. In response, Congress passed the ______________, which intended to maintain a balance of power in the Senate. The law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of a latitude line, a provision that held for over three decades. However, it ultimately highlighted the deep, growing divisions that would later resurface and lead to civil war.

• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Homestead Act (1862)
• Missouri Compromise (1920)