US Unit 8 test review

This proposed law would assure that any new states formed from territory gained in the Mexican War would not allow slavery

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso

This did away with the slave trade in Washington D.C.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

This created the state of New Mexico and allowed voters there to vote on being a free or slave state.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which of the following kept an equal number of free and slave states in the Senate?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

This admitted California as a free state and required citizens to report runaway slaves.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

This kept the balance of free and slave states the same in the senate and banned slavery in the northern part of the Louisiana territory.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

This conflict was caused when two countries could not agree on their boundaries.

• The Civil War

• Bleeding Kansas

• Mexican-American War

favoring one area of the country over the country as a whole

• sectionalism

• popular sovereignty

• secession

Republic that joined the U.S. shortly after gaining their independence from Mexico.

• Arizona

• Nebraska

• Texas

Which of the following was a belief held by John Brown (1800–1859)?

• Abolitionists should work for gradual change.

• The South should work to diversify its economic base.

• Slavery should be abolished by violent means, if necessary