Toward Civil War

The Missouri Compromise...

• Allows slavery to be anywhere in the country

• Allows slavery in the West only

• Sets a line at the bottom of Missouri which blocked slavery above the line

In the Missouri Compromise...

• Missouri came in as a free state and Maine a slave state

• Missouri came in as a slave state and Maine a free state

• Missouri came in as a slave state and California a free state

Texas was admitted into the union is in...

• 1840

• 1845

• 1850

This President unsuccessfully tried to buy Texas from Mexico and it eventually led the the Mexican American War.

• John F Kennedy

• Abraham Lincoln

• James K Polk

What was the Wilmot Proviso?...what did it intend to do?

• Was a proposal that would ban slavery in any territories that the US would get from Mexico

• Was a proposal that would ban slavery in any territories that the US would get from Britain

• Was a proposal that would allow slavery in any territories in the US

This person said that Congress nor any territorial government could ban/regulate slavery

• David Wilmot

• John C Calhoun

• Stephen Douglas

This political party was formed in 1848

• American Party "Know Nothings"

• Republican Party

• Free Soil Party

In 1849, this state wanted to come into the Union as a free state.

• Missouri

• California

• Maine

This Senator said that California could come in as a free state but all future territories would have no limits on slavery

• Stephen Douglas

• John C Calhoun

• Henry Clay

The Compromise of 1850...

• California comes in as a free state..Utah and New Mexico territories would use popular sovereignty to decide free/slave state...Set Texas-New Mexico boundary...Ended the slave trade in Washington DC...Set up the Fugitive Slave Act

• California comes in as a slave state..Utah and New Mexico territories would use popular sovereignty to decide free/slave state...Set Arizona-New Mexico boundary...Ended the slave trade in Washington DC...Set up the Fugitive Slave Act

• California comes in as a free state..Utah and Nevada territories would use popular sovereignty to decide free/slave state...Set Texas-Mexico boundary...Ended the slave trade in Washington DC...Set up the Fugitive Slave Act