Westward Expansion and its Affect on Slavery

Close reading the map, The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states. North of the line slavery was (a)   or banned.​

• prohibited
• permitted
• sometimes prohibited
• cheap

Why was it important to Southern senators to have an equal number of slave and free states? It was mainly an ...

• Issue of respect.

• Issue of equal balance in voting power in the United States Senate.

• Issue of tax revenue.

• Issue of future elections.

Once Texas won independence from Mexico, they were immediately admitted to the United States as a new state.

• True

• False

_______ is the idea that God wanted America to have land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

• Providence
• The Spoils System
• Manifest Destiny
• Destiny of the USA

What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo do?

• War continues

• Officially ends they war between the United States and Mexico and Mexico cedes much land to the United States.

• Leads to World War 3

• Gave the land called The Gadsden Purchase to the United Stattes.

Which area on the map was acquired by the United States as a result of the Mexican War?

• Texas Annexation
• Gadsden Purchase 
• Mexican Cession
• Oregon Territory

The idea that political power belongs to the people is called_____________________, and allows the people to make decisions about who will represent them in government and what laws will be established.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Separation of Powers

What did the Compromise of 1850 say about the other territories acquired by the US from Mexico?

• The people would decide whether they wanted slavery.

• They would automatically become slave states.

• Slavery was banned.

• All of the above.

The Compromise of 1850 admitted _________ as a free state.

• Arizona

• California

• New Mexico

• Utah

An abolitionist wants to

• keep slavery

• end slavery

• pay slaves