Unit 4 (Slides 1-31)

The Missouri Compromise wanted to ensure that there was an even number of what? (Choose two)

• Free

• Republican

• Democratic

• Slave

How did Manifest Destiny encourage the migration west within the United States?

• They believed they should move west if they paid the Native American's for their land.

• It told American's it was against the law to stay on the East Coast from here on out.

• American's believed it was their God given right to migrate West, regardless of who they pushed out.

• The British pushed the American's West, away from the coast.

Who was known as the "Great Compromiser" and the creator of both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Polk

• Henry Clay

• James Madison

What did the 'Wilmot Proviso" state about the newly acquired land from the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?

• That the United States would not be allowed to migrate west any longer

• Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude would exist in the new territories

• Any gold found in the new land would only belong to Mexico

• The addition of the territory did not matter because all Southern states were to be slave states.

Which of the following is a cause of the war between the United States and Mexico?

• The removal of Hispanics from the Louisiana Territory

• Mexican involvement in taking land East of the Mississippi River

• The inability for Mexico to profit from all of the gold found in Mexico

• Border disputes over land in Texas.

-California admitted as a free state

-New Mexico voters deciding on the issue of slavery

-Fugitive Slave Act

-Slave Trade will no longer exist in District of Columbia, but slavery will continue

These are all apart of which of the following?

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Tariff Act of 1817

• The Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Dred Scott v. Sanford gave protection to slavery under the Constitution and ruled that which of the TWO was unconstitutional?

• Missouri Compromise

• Popular Sovereignty

• Voting

• Slavery

Which future Confederate Army leader captured John Brown after his raid of the armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia?

• Stephen Douglas

• Andrew Jackson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

The law that all citizens are required to return escaped slaves to their owners is known as _____________

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends which war?

• War of 1812

• American Revolution

• The French Revolution

• The Mexican- American War