Sectionalism

Sectionalism

Multiple Choice

Three part compromise arranged by Henry Clay that created a temporary truce on the political issue of slavery: Missouri added as a slave state, Maine added as a free state, above 36°30' line =free,

below =slavery

• Missouri Compromise

• Mexican Cession

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

Multiple Choice

According to the MO Compromise, a new state added above the 36'30' line would be added as a...

• free state.

• slave state.

Poll

Why do you think statesmen were reluctant to admit TX as a state for nine years?

• It would create more free states than slave states.

• It would tip the balance of power in the Senate: more Senators from slave states.

• The US would go to great lengths to avoid a war with Mexico at this time.

Multiple Choice

Which president is best associated with Manifest Destiny due to conflicts with other nations over acquiring new territory for the US?

• James Monroe

• Andrew Jackson

• James K. Polk

Multiple Choice

The land taken from Mexico after the Mexican-American War is known as

• Texas

• California

• the Mexican Cession

Multiple Choice

Amendment to Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo to forbid slavery in newly acquired Mexican Cession; did not pass Senate, never became law

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

Kansas-Nebraska Act TedEd

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Multiple Choice

Four part compromise arranged by Henry Clay that strengthened enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, banned slave trade in DC, admitted California as a free state, and implemented popular sovereignty to decide upon the issue of slavery in Utah and New Mexico

• American System

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Multiple Choice

Allowing the vote of the people to determine issue of government

• Popular Sovereignty

• Cession

• Secession

Multiple Choice

This negated the Missouri Compromise by allowing states in “forever free” territory to decide upon the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

John Brown doc. analysis activity

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Open Ended

By 1859, do you think the conflict over slavery could have been resolved without a war? Why or why not?