Which law was created in order to keep a balance of power between slave and free states in the union?
a. fugitive slave act
b. compromise of 1850
c. missouri compromise
d. kansas-nebraska act

Which source would best a historian understand the effect of the great chicago fire on families? a. a biography of a chicago family displaced by the fire b. a letter from a grandmother in new york to her family in chicago c. a newspaper editorial about families who were displaced d. an oral history dictated by an adolescent who fled the fire