15.1 - Debate over Slavery

President James K. Polk divided what Cession into a free and slave zone.

• Russian

• Japanese

• Mexican

• American

It was illegal to have slavery in the North besides which state?

• Illinois

• Missouri

• Ohio

• Massachusetts

Lewis Cass encouraged

• antislavery

• popular sovereignty

• slavery

Who made plans to keep the nations peace?

• President Polk

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

California was able to enter the union as a free state because of what?

• Compromise of 1850

• Emancipation proclamation

• Declaration of Independence

The plan was to divide the bigger territory of Mexico into two territories, ____&____?

• Utah & New Mexico

• California & Arizona

• Texas & Oklahoma

Fugitive Slave Act

• made it legal to help fugitive slaves

• made it illegal to help fugitive slaves

• illegal to arrest slaves in free states

Punishment for helping a fugitive slave

• $2,000 fine and 4 months in jail

• a yr in jail and $5,000 fine

• 6 months in jail and $1,000 fine

Who was arrested the same month the fugitive slave law was passed?

• James Hamlet

• Rosa Parks

• Anthony Burns

• George Washington

Thousands of blacks fled to Canada. 343 cases were reviewed, out of those 343 cases how many were set free?

• 13

• 8

• 11

• 25