Compromises in Road to Civil War

Who was known as the "Great Compromiser" because of his work in the Missouri and 1850 Compromises?

• Stephen Douglas

• Frederick Douglass

• Henry Clay

• Abraham Lincoln

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act how was the issue of slavery in those territories decided?

• By a vote of the people there

• By congress

• By the Supreme Court

• By the President

In the Compromise of 1850 which state came in as a free-state?

• Missouri

• Kansas

• California

• Texas

Click ALL that apply. Which options were part of the Compromise of 1850?

• California would become a free state

• Strong Fugitive Slave law

• Slave trade banned in D.C.

• New Mexico become a free state

What territory saw a Civil War break out over the issue of free/slave state?

• Missouri

• Kansas

• California

• Nebraska

Which politician from Kentucky was instrumental in creating the Compromise of 1850? Hint: He also was key in passing the Missouri Compromise in 1820,

• Henry Clay

• John Quincy Adams

• John C. Calhoun

• Abraham Lincoln

What term means to formally withdraw from something? Like when slave states wanted to leave the United States.

• cede

• secede

• repeal

• annex

According to the Compromise of 1850, which two territories were allowed to decide for themselves on the issue of allowing or banning slavery by popular sovereignty?

• Utah and New Mexico

• California and Oregon

• Oklahoma and Texas

• Michigan and Ohio

Who came up with the idea of the Missouri Compromise?  

• James Monroe
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Henry Clay

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

• Missouri

• Maine

• Kentucky

• Ohio