Expansion and Slavery 1820 - 1850

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

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

Why was the South against California entering the union?

• California would upset the delicate balance of the Senate
• California wanted to be a slave state
• California was the scene of violence and bloodshed
• I don't have the foggiest idea

The cotton gin:

• made it easier and cheaper to produce cotton
• was created by Eli Whitney
• increased the value of enslaved people
• All of the above

Mexico argued that the Texas border was the Nueces River, while the U.S. believed it was the ________ river

• Rio Grande
• Mississippi
• Colorado

U.S. citizens believed it was their God-Given fate to travel westward, which they titled what?

• American Expansion 
• Westward Ho!
• Manifest Destiny

Which state was not gained by the U.S. as a result of the Mexican American war?

• California

• Arkansas

• New Mexico

• Arizona

What President was the biggest supporter of Manifest Destiny?

• James K. Polk
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Monroe
• George Washington

Why did people rush to California?

• Religious Freedom
• Silver 
• Gold
• Beaver Pelts 

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

The Compromise of 1850 outlawed slave auctions in...

• Washington, DC

• Richmond

• New Orleans

• Charleston