Pre-Civil War: Compromises

This is when people in each territory would vote directly on the issue, rather than have their elected representative decide for them.

• republicanism
• popular sovereignty
• nationalism
• free-range

This law in 1820 provided that the Louisiana Territory north of the Southern border of this state would be a free-state.

• Kentucky
• Oklahoma
• Missouri
• California

What proposition would allow congress to ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the United States as a result of the Mexican American War.

• Wilmot Proviso
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise 1850
• Kansas & Nebraska Act

John C. Calhoun

• pro-slavery 
• anti-slavery

Uncle Tom's Cabin

• pro-slavery
• anti-slavery

Daniel Webster

• pro-slavery
• anti-slavery

Wilmot Proviso

• pro-slavery
• anti-slavery

The Compromise of 1850 admitted what state as a free state?

• Nevada
• Kansas
• Missouri
• California

What law allowed special government officials to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave?

• Fugitive Slave Act 1850
• Emancipation Proclomation
• Underground Railroad
• Kansas Nebraska Act

This law left it to the white citizens of the territory to decide whether that territory would be a free or slave territory.

• Missouri Compromise
• Wilmot Proviso
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Emancipation Proclomation