CH 10.1 & 10.2

What famous attachment to a military appropriations bill stated: “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist” in any newly acquired territory from the Mexican American War.

• Anti-Slavery Clause
• Wilmot Proviso
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Ostend Manifesto

What group opposed the Wilmot Proviso?

• Southerners
• Northerners
• Immigrants
• Free blacks

What is the main reason southerners assumed California would be open to slavery?

• It was suitable for tobacco and cotton
• It had overthrown Mexican rule
• Slaves would make gold mining cheaper
• Part of the state was below the 36 30 line

What did the South threaten to do over the disagreements in Congress in 1850?

• secede
• to join Mexico
• to incite a Canadian invasion of the North
• to invade Washington D.C.

Going into 1850, the South accused the North of failing to enforce what?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Wilmot Proviso
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Kansas Nebraska Act

Which of the following was NOT included in the Compromise of 1850?

• Washington DC banned the slave trade
• California became a free state
• Provisions for a railroad from Chicago to San Francisco
• Utah and New Mexico were given popular sovereignty

How did Stephen A. Douglas manage to pass the components of the Compromise of 1850?

• He teamed up with Daniel Webster
• He had Congress vote on each part individually
• He threatened the South with military force
• He assassinated John C. Calhoun

What term refers to members of a territory deciding for themselves whether they would be a slave state or free state?

• popular sovereignty
• right to vote
• Wilmot Proviso
• right to choose

After the death of President Zachary Taylor, who became President and supported the compromise of 1850?

• Franklin Pierce
• James Buchannan
• Abraham Lincoln
• Millard Filmore

Who first created the Compromise of 1850 to please both North and South?

• Henry Clay
• John C. Calhoun
• Daniel Webster
• Millard Fillmore