Domain 2, Part 2

What was the Missouri Compromise?

• Land north of the 36 parallel would be slave states

• Land south of the 36 parallel would be slave states, excluding Missouri

• Popular sovereignty would determine whether land would be free or slave

• California would be a free state and there would be a new fugitive slave law

Who did we win the Oregon Territory from?

• Mexico

• France

• Britain

• Native Americans

What is Manifest Destiny?

• the belief that it was inevitable and encouraged for America to expand

• a movement that encouraged people to believe in God

• determined that slavery would be legal in the south

• the name of the territory won from Mexico

What did the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo state?

• Mexico won the war against the US and could keep Texas

• Mexico would willingly sell some land to the US for $10 million

• The US won Texas and the Mexican Cession from Mexico

• The war between Spain and the US ended

What was the Wilmot Provisio?

• slavery should be an option for all states

• expansion should be encouraged

• any new states added to the US should decide to be slave/free by popular sovereignty

• all new states added should outlaw slavery

What were two components of the Compromise of 1850?

• California would be a slave state; no more slave trade

• Missouri would be a slave state; Maine would be a free state

• Popular sovereignty to decide free or slave in Kansas; fugitive slave law

• California would be a free state; fugitive slave law

What is popular sovereignty?

• voting

• outlawing slavery

• rebellion

A law that said new states would decide by popular sovereignty if they would be free or slave

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Manifest Destiny

What was the result of the Dred Scott case?

• slaves and former slaves are NOT considered to be citizens

• slaves and former slaves cannot run for president

• slavery is abolished

• this slave revolt led directly into the Civil War

What was the biggest expansion of the US?

• Mexican Cession

• Texas Annexation

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Louisiana Purchase

• Oregon Territory