Expansion and Division- Notes 3 (Compromise of 1850)

What set the slave line at the 36°30° parallel?

• Compromise of 1850

• The Great Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

What states were added because of the Missouri Compromise?

• California

• Missouri

• Kansas

• Nebraska

• Maine

Who was known as the "Great Compromiser"?

• Andrew Jackson

• Henry Clay

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Quincy Adams

Henry Clay devised a plan that would deal with slavery issues, border disputes, and fugitive slaves. What was this plan called?

• Great

  Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• 3/5 Compromise

What were the main points of the Compromise of 1850? Choose 4.

• California would join as a free state

• The Fugitive Slave Act passed

• Utah & New Mexico's citizens would choose whether they would allow slavery

• Slavery would continue in Washington D.C. but not slave trade

• The U.S. would purchase 30,000 square miles from Mexico to finish out the southern border

True or False. Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 would keep the Union together but only for 11 more years.

• True

• False

This law demanded that runaway slaves be returned to the South and that anyone who helped a slave escape would be punished.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Slave Codes

• Fugitive Slave Act

What was one result of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Many African Americans fled to Canada

• Many African Americans fled to Europe

• Many African Americans fled to California

• Many African Americans fled to the Oregon Territory

This author was even more committed to ending slavery after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. What was her name?

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write that shook the nation about the horrors of slavery?

• Twelve Years a Slave

• American Slavery, American Freedom

• Uncle Toms Cabin

• The Liberator

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass