US I CH 12

The Compromise of 1850 provided for all of the following EXCEPT

• A strong Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular sovereignty in the territories of Utah and New Mexico

• Abolition of slave trade in the District of Columbia

• Admission of California as a slave state

The policy of permitting settlers of each new territory to vote on whether slavery would be permitted in the territory was called

• Settlers rights

• Popular sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Freedom of speech

The slavery issue getting the most attention in Congress from 1820-1860 was

• Stopping the importation of slaves

• Emancipation of the slaves

• Humane treatment of slaves

• Extension of slavery into the territories

Who became best known for leading slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Tubman

• Stephen Douglas

Despite earlier efforts to settle the issue, the slavery issue became a major issue in the 1840’s and 1850’s because the

• Existing political parties needed an issue that would unite their members

• Evangelists of the Second Great Awakening raised the issue frequently

• Nation was expanding west

• US Supreme Court had a Northern majority

Proposal that slavery not be permitted in the Mexican Cession

• Ostend Manifesto

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act

Policy permitting settlers of territory to vote on whether to allow slavery or not

• Wilmot Proviso

• Political Action Committee

• Popular Sovereignty

• Congressional Dispensation

Routes that led slaves north to freedom

• turnpikes

• canals

• railroads

• underground railroad

Senator who wrote the Compromise of 1850

• John C. Calhoun

• Daniel Webster

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

Which of the following contributed the least to the causes of the Civil War

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Mexican Cession

• The industrialization of the south

• Slavery