Events leading to Civil War: Compromise 1850

Tuesday, 2/5/25

​I will investigate the events leading to the Civil War

Open Ended

What does each side get in the Compromise of 1850? (Everyone has the same R.A.C.E. answer)

Multiple Choice

What does popular sovereignty mean?

• People of the territories would decide government issues for themselves, without US government

• The US government would decide all territorial issues, without any conversations with the people

• The North would decide all territorial issues, without any conversations with the people

• The South would decide all territorial issues, without any conversations with the people

Open Ended

How did this impact the nation as a whole? (Everyone has the same R.A.C.E. answer)

Multiple Choice

The economy of the South depended largely on

• slave labor
• new inventions
• manufactoring

Multiple Choice

Under this compromise, if a slave state was added to the Union, a free state or territory must also be added

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Multiple Choice

The Fugitive Slave Act was added to this compromise to please Southern states

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Multiple Choice

Which state was admitted as a free state as a result of the Missouri compromise that added Missouri as a slave state?

• Louisiana
• California
• Maine
• Florida

Multiple Choice

What was the concern by Southern leaders heading into the Compromise of 1850?

• Southern leaders were afraid that if California was added as a free state it would give the North too much political power
• Southern leaders were afraid of another state being added to the Union in favor of slavery
• Southern leaders thought that the compromise would add stronger fugitive slave laws in the North
• Southern leaders were worried it would lead to high tariffs on European goods coming into the United States

Multiple Choice

What does "secede" mean?

• something use to plant in the dirt
• rivalry based on the special interests of different areas
• to withdraw or break away from a nation
• the separation or isolation of a race

Multiple Choice

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

Multiple Choice

The north was ________ slavery

• For
• Against
• Loving
• in favor of

Multiple Choice

In the Dred Scott Decision, the Supreme Court said that slaves were _________.

• people
• property
• free
• children

Multiple Choice

Which politician from Kentucky was instrumental in creating the Compromise of 1850? Hint: He also was key in passing the Missouri Compromise in 1820,

• Henry Clay

• John Quincy Adams

• John C. Calhoun

• Abraham Lincoln

Multiple Choice

Which state entered the Union as a free state as a result of the Compromise of 1850?

• California

• Maine

• Missouri

• Texas

Multiple Choice

The idea that political power belongs to the people is called_____________________, and allows the people to make decisions about who will represent them in government and what laws will be established.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Separation of Powers

Multiple Choice

What term means to formally withdraw from something? Like when slave states wanted to leave the United States.

• cede

• secede

• repeal

• annex

Multiple Choice

After the Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850, some 343 fugitive slave cases were heard over the next 10 years. How many of those cases resulted in accused fugitive slaves being declared free?

• 11

• 249

• 131

• 36

Multiple Choice

According to the Compromise of 1850, which two territories were allowed to decide for themselves on the issue of allowing or banning slavery by popular sovereignty?

• Utah and New Mexico

• California and Oregon

• Oklahoma and Texas

• Michigan and Ohio

Multiple Choice

Sectionalism occurs when people favor the interests of one section of the country over the interests of the entire country. The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act that followed ____________________________________.

• increased sectional tensions in the United States

• decreased sectional tensions in the United States

• kept sectional tensions between the north and the south about the same