Chapter 15 Section 1

Most canals and railroads ran east and west, helping the _________ and _________ states develop strong ties.

• Eastern and Northern

• Midwestern and Southern

• Midwestern and Northern

• Southern and Northern

Most Southern whites were

• wealthy and owned many slaves

• poor and owned no slaves

Abolitionists believed that

• slavery was a right of every white man

• slavery should be limited to the South

• Slavery should be done away with completely

• slavery was no ones business in the North

Despite opposing slavery most Northerners were

• abolitionist

• racist

• slave holders

• open to living with free blacks

Slaveholders defended slavery by saying

• whites were superior to blacks

• it brought Christianity to slaves

• it provided food and shelter to slaves

• all of the above

The Wilmot Proviso

• tried to outlaw slavery in new territory

• tried to spread slavery to new territory

• passed and became a law

• helped to unite the United states

The goal of the Free-Soil Party was to 

• stop the expansion of slavery

• expand slavery

• free current slaves

The admission of California as a "free" state

• destroyed the balance of power 

• angered the South

• please President Taylor

• all of the above

The Compromise of 1850 

• allowed California to be admitted as a slave state

• allowed California to be admitted as a free state

The Compromise of 1850

• allowed for a stronger runway slave law

• passed laws outlawing slavery in the new territory