Growing Tensions Over Slavery

What law compelled the North to return runaway slaves back to the South?

• Fugitive Dog Acts
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Abolition Act of 1850
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The Fugitive Slave Act allowed who to enter Free States in pursuit of fugitive slaves?

• Slave catchers
• Abolitionists
• Free Soilers
• Democrats

Who was known as the Great Compromiser?

• John C Calhoun
• Daniel Webster
• Henry Clay
• George Washington

Which of the following terms means to withdraw?

• secede
• fugitive
• propaganda
• blockade

Which of the following would be considered a fugitive?

• enslaved person
• runaway slave
• free soiler
• abolitionist

During the debate over the spread of slavery into new territories, some of the leaders promoted the idea that political power belongs to the people. They called it

• the Dred Scott Decision
• the Missouri Compromise
• Popular Sovereignty
• the Compromise of 1850

Who proposed the compromise of 1850?

• Daniel Webster
• Abraham Lincoln
• Henry Clay
• John C. Calhoun

The Wilmot Proviso was  created to deal with what issue?

• Annexation of Texas
• Territory gained from Mexio
• Runaway slaves
• Popular sovereignty

Which was the political party created to ban slavery in the Mexican territory?

• Whig Party
• Democratic Party
• Revolution Party
• Free-Soil Party

Who was the Massachusetts senator who argued for compromise in order to preserve the Union?

• David Wilmot
• Daniel Webster
• Henry Clay
• John C. Calhoun