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Which is not part of the Missouri Compromise?

• Maine enters the Union as a slave state
• Territory was divided between free and slave by a line running at 36°30' latitude.
• Missouri entered the Union as a state with slavery
• Maine became a new state to keep balance with the addition of Missouri

The Compromise of 1850 admitted what state as a free state?

• Nevada
• Kansas
• Missouri
• California

What state would be added to the Union as a free state according to the Compromise of 1850

• Oregon
• California
• Michigan
• Iowa

What part of the Compromise of 1850 upset the North the most?

• Allowing California in as a free state
• Ending the slave trade in Washington DC
• using popular sovereignty to decide Utah and New Mexico
• the stricter Fugitive Slave Act

* Transcontinental Railroad
* Kansas and Nebraska joined as a free state
* Erased the Missouri Compromise Line (36* 30* Parallel)
* New territories had popular sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Scott vs Sanford

What compromise abandons the Missouri Compromise?

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.

• Dred Scott Case
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

This is when people in each territory would vote directly on the issue, rather than have their elected representative decide for them.

• republicanism
• popular sovereignty
• nationalism
• free-range

What law allowed special government officials to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave?

• Fugitive Slave Act 1850
• Emancipation Proclomation
• Underground Railroad
• Kansas Nebraska Act

In 1859, this abolitionist raided Harper's Ferry, Virginia in order to start a slave revolt.

• Robert E. Lee
• John Brown
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass