16.1 The Search for Compromise

Which of the following is true about the Missouri Compromise?

• It was only a temporary solution
• The Northwest Territory permitted slavery
• The Arkansas Territory prohibited (banned) slavery
• It solved all issues concerning slavery in the west

What was a problem the U.S. Congress had with Texas joining the United States?

• Texas was too big
• Texas was for slavery
• Texas did not allow slavery
• Texas was not independent from Mexico

All of the following were CAUSES of the Mexican-American War EXCEPT which one?

• Manifest Destny
• Popular Sovereignty
• Border disputes
• Annexation of Texas

A document stating that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the Mexican Session

• Sectionalism
• Wilmot Proviso
• Popular Sovereignty 
• Compromise of 1850

Antislavery Northerners formed a new party, which supported the Wilmot Proviso

• Republican Party
• Democratic Party
• Free-Soil Party
• Whig Party

An Act that made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas

• Missouri Compromise 
• Compromise of 1850
• Slave Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

Which of the following is NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

• The slave trade in the District of Columbia was abolished
• Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state 
• California entered the Union as a free state 
• Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act

Who was the South Carolina Senator that was against compromise and for states' rights

• John C. Calhoun
• Daniel Webster
• Henry Clay

Who was the Great Compromiser that proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850

• John C. Calhoun
• Daniel Webster
• Henry Clay

Who was the Senator that supported Clay's compromise in order to preserve the Union.

• John C. Calhoun
• Daniel Webster
• Henry Clay