Topic 8 Lesson 1 Conflicts and Compromises

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What is the Missouri Compromise?

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an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal

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What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

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one of two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves

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The Missour Compromise did not settle the question of slavery in future states or territories.

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True

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What is known as the right of the people to create their government?

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Popular Sovereignty

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Their main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories.

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Free-Soil Party

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The Great Compromiser, Henry Clay _____ the Nullification Crisis. He worked out the Missouri Compromise and the compromise Tariff in 1833.

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resolved

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Because many southerners feared that the South would be outvoted in the Senate. Some suggested that the southern states might want to ____?___.

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secede

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Calhoun wanted northerners to admit that slaveholders had the right to reclaim their property, so he demanded that ______?_____ be returned to their owners.

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fugitives

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A ____?____ is a war between people of the same country.

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Civil War

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Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?

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Henry Clay