Slavery Compromises

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

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

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

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

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

What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?

• The underground railroad was ended
• Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
• Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
• Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves

What state would be added to the Union as a free state according to the Compromise of 1850

• Oregon
• California
• Michigan
• Iowa

The term means that people in the state would VOTE to make decisions about being a free state or a slave state.

• independent choice
• popular sovereignty
• popular election

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

This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 

• Fugitive Slave Act 
• Bleeding Kansas
• Missouri Compromise 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

Any new territory that becomes a state NORTH of the 36-30 line would be a _____ state.

• Free
• Slave
• Sovereign
• Abolitionist

As part of the agreement in the Compromise of 1850, how would slavery in the remaining territory of Utah and New Mexico from the Mexican Cession be decided?

• The Senate would vote

• The House of Representatives would vote

• The President would decide

• Popular sovereignty- the people in the territory would vote