Topic 8 Lesson 1 Conflicts and Compromises

What is the Missouri Compromise?

• an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed

• an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal

• one of two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

• an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed

• an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal

• one of two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves

The Missour Compromise did not settle the question of slavery in future states or territories.

• True

• False

What is known as the right of the people to create their government?

• Free-Soil Party

• Popular Sovereighnty

• Free-People Party

Their main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories.

• Free-Soil Party

• Popular Sovereighnty

• Free-People Party

The Great Compromiser, Henry Clay _____ the Nullification Crisis. He worked out the Missouri Compromise and the compromise Tariff in 1833.

• resolved

• seceded

• fled

Because many southerners feared that the South would be outvoted in the Senate. Some suggested that the southern states might want to ____?___.

• resolve

• secede

Calhoun wanted northerners to admit that slaveholders had the right to reclaim their property, so he demanded that ______?_____ be returned to their owners.

• homes

• fugitives

• the government

A ____?____ is a war between people of the same country.

• Revolutionary War

• World War

• Civil War

Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?

• Henry Clay

• President Taylor

• John C. Calhoun