compromise of 1850

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
• It added California as a slave state

Who proposed the compromise of 1850?

• Henry Clay
• Abraham Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?

• The underground railroad was ended
• Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
• Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
• Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves

What state would be added to the Union as a free state according to the Compromise of 1850

• Oregon
• California
• Michigan
• Iowa

According to the Compromise of 1850, What could New Mexico and Utah territories do?

• They could only join the Union as a free state.
• The people of the territory could decided where to allow slavery.
• They could only join the Union as a slave state.
• They could become their own nation.

The north was ________ slavery

• For
• Against
• Unsure
• About

All of these were reason the Fugitive Slave Law failed except.

• Many slaves moved to Canada.
• Northerners refused to obey the law.
• Hounded slave catchers returned to the South.
• Plantation owners did not want returned slaves.

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• It created a slave revolt in Kentucky.
• It turned many more people against slavery.
• Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished.
• The Fugitive slave law was cancelled.

How did the Kansas- Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

• It changed the borders of Missouri
• It required that all Missouri be free.
• It allowed slavery in Kansas and Nebraska Territories 
• It established new interstate trade rules.

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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