Search for Compromise

When the United States added new territory in the 1840s,

• the railroads were expanded

• the debate over slavery started again

• land was given to Native Americans

• it was immediately made a state in the Union

Southerners did not support the Wilmot Proviso because it

• banned secession by any state

• banned slavery in norther states

• banned slavery in all states

• banned slaver in lands acquired from Mexico

According to which law could a person be fined or imprisoned for helping a runaway slave?

• Southern slave Act

• Owners-Right Act

• Runaway Slave Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

An issue in the election of 1844 was the annexation of

• California

• Missouri

• Texas

• Kansas

Stephen A. Douglas's plan to let each territory vote on slave was called

• popular choice

• territorial sovereignty

• electoral choice

• popular sovereignty