8.67 Compromise of 1850

8.67 Compromise of 1850

8th Grade

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8.67 Compromise of 1850

8.67 Compromise of 1850

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8th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Who proposed the compromise of 1850?

Henry Clay
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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

Oregon
California
Michigan
Iowa

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What circumstances made California ready for statehood so quickly?

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Gadsden Purchase

Manifest Destiny

Gold Rush

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

As part of the agreement in the Compromise of 1850, how would the remaining territory from the Mexican Cession be decided?

The Senate would vote
The House of Representatives would vote
The President would vote
Popular sovereignty

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the idea of Popular Sovereignty?

Plan to free California

Plan to allow each state to vote individually on the issue of slavery

Plan to bring the Transcontinental Railroad to the US

Plan to use the popular vote to elect the President

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?

Allow escaped slaves in the North to remain free

Force escaped slaves in the South back into slavery

Nothing, it never passed

Force Northerners to assist Southern slave-owners in recapturing escaped slaves

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.

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