Compromises

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

Who came up with the idea of the Missouri Compromise?  

• James Monroe
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Henry Clay

Where was the Missouri Compromise line?

• 36-30 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 46-40 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 56-50 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 66-60 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase

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

• Oregon
• California
• Michigan
• Iowa

The term means that people in the state would VOTE to make decisions about being a free state or a slave state.

• independent choice
• popular sovereignty
• popular election

This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 

• Fugitive Slave Act 
• Bleeding Kansas
• Missouri Compromise 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

Any new territory that becomes a state NORTH of the 36-30 line would be a _____ state.

• Free
• Slave
• Sovereign
• Abolitionist