Compromise of 1850 and Sectional Conflict

The Compromise of 1850 was caused by the desire of what territory to be admitted as a state?

• Missouri

• California

• Texas

• Kansas

The Wilmot Proviso attempted to...

• Legalize slavery in the territories taken from Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Introduce the concept of popular sovereignty

• Outlaw slavery in the territories taken from Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Determine the legality of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska

The concept that the people in a territory should decide through democratic means whether slavery should or should not be legal in that territory is also known as...

• Squatter sovereignty

• Free Soil movement

• Know-Nothing movement

• Wilmot Proviso

What historical event accelerated both the settlement of California and the Compromise of 1850?

• Collapse of the mission system

• Signing of the Oregon Treaty with Great Britain

• Signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Discovery of gold in 1849

The arguments made against slavery by the authors of the Constitution of California can best be described as....

• Political

• Social

• Economic

• Humanitarian

Secession as a term means...

• A state attemtping to leave a national government and form an independent country

• A state dividing itself into smaller administrative units

• The forcible acquisition of a state from one national government to a different national government

• The process by which a ruler is elected upon the expiration of the previous ruler

The principal archeitect of the Compromise of 1850 was...

• Millard Fillmore

• Zachary Taylor

• Henry Clay

• Stephen Douglas

In exchange for agreeing to the admitting California as a free state, the South got....

• End of the slave trade in Washington D.C.

• Removal of tariffs on imported goods

• A tougher Fugitive Slave Act

• All of the above

Is the statement "The Compromise of 1850 effectively and lastingly solved the sectional crisis over slavery" true or false?

• True

• False

Immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s overwhelmingly came from which two countries? (pick two)

• Britain

• Scandanavia

• Ireland

• Germany

• Poland