The Search for Compromise

When the United States added new territory in the 1840s, ____.

• the railroads were expanded

• the debate over slavery started again

• land was given to Native Americans

• it was immediately made a state in the Union

An issue in the election of 1844 was the annexation of ____.

• California

• Missouri

• Texas

• Kansas

Texas became a state following the Mexican War.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Southerners did not support the Wilmot Proviso because it ____.

• banned secession by any state

• banned slavery in northern states

• banned slavery in all the states

• banned slavery in lands acquired from Mexico

Stephen A. Douglas's plan to let each territory vote on slavery was called ____.

• popular choice

• territorial sovereignty

• electoral choice

• popular sovereignty

The Free-Soil Party was established in 1848 because ____.

• land prices were becoming too high

• Zachary Taylor won the election

• presidential candidates did not address slavery

• most people were farmers

As part of the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.

• TRUE

• FALSE

According to which law could a person be fined or imprisoned for helping a runaway slave?

• Southern Slave Act

• Owners-Right Act

• Runaway Slave Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

In 1853, Franklin Pierce became ____.

• editor of The Liberator

• a U.S. senator

• U.S. secretary of state

• president of the United States

Armed pro-slavery supporters who crossed the border from Missouri to vote were called Kansas Crusaders.

• TRUE

• FALSE