The Compromise of 1850

The definition of Popular Sovereignty is....

• Subjection

• Hegemony

• Power of the People

• Subservience

Which state wanted to join the nation as a free state....

• North Carolina

• Missouri

• Myrtle Beach

• California

Which threat made by Calhoun forced Clay to come up with the Compromise of 1850?

• South threatened to kill Henry Clay

• South threatened to secede

• The South was planning on invading the White House

• The North was angry

Why did California want to end slave trade in Washington DC...?

Answer explanation

• Northerners wanted to keep slavery out of the SW

• Laws to protect runaway slaves who made it to freedom in the North  

• Southerners did not want more free states

• South wanted slavery to be allowed in the southwest territories

What did the Compromise of 1850 say about the other territories acquired by the US from Mexico?

• The people could decide whether they wanted slavery

• They didn't say anything

• All of the above

• Slavery was banned

The Compromise of 1850 included the....

• Freedom Act

• Legislation Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Sugar Act

The Fugitive Slave Act...

• Increased Underground Railroad Activity

• Led to resistance in the North

• Infuriated abolitionists

• All of the above

What happened that made California ready for statehood so sudden?

• Manifest Destiny

• They were bored and wanted to do something different

• The Gold Rush

• Only the first and third option

What law was opened for Kansas and Nebraska territory to be possible slave states?

• Bleeding Kansas

• Emancipation Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The San Francisco 49ers football team is named after the California Gold Rush

• False

• True

• Maybe