Chapter 15 - Section 1 Slavery and the West

An exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country

• proviso

• abstention

• sectionalism

• sovereignty

Southerners wanted a law requiring states to return ________ slaves

• fugitive

• abstain

• martyr

• frugal

Southerners were worried they would soon be outvoted in the Senate and threatened to ______ from the United States.

• fugitive

• secede

• sojourn

• abstain

Some representatives __________ from voting so Congress could pass the Compromise of 1850.

• abstained

• abhorred

• compromised

• coerced

When Missouri joined the union as a slave state, ________ joined as a free state at the same time.

• Pennsylvania

• Massachusetts

• Maine

• Wisconsin

Who suggested the Missouri Compromise?

• John Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• Stephen Douglas

• James Polk

The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery north of the line ___________ North latitude

• 30*36'

• 42*15'

• 36*30'

• 36*00'

The _____ Party was created in 1848 when neither presidential candidate would take a stand on slavery in the territories. They nominated Martin Van Buren for president in 1848.

• Free-Soil

• Whig

• Know Nothing

• Liberty

Henry Clay came up with a multi-part plan to settle the issues dividing Congress. Stephen Douglas took these ideas and created the _______________.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850