Westward Expansion and Slavery

A proposal to prohibit the importation of enslaved people to Missouri following its admission to the United States was made by ________.

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• James Tallmadge

• John Quincy Adams

To balance votes in the Senate, (a)   was admitted to the Union as a free state at the same time that Missouri was admitted as a slave state

What was the latitude line set that would be the boundary between free and enslaved states in the Louisiana Territory?

• 54°40'

• 30°36'

• 40°54'

• 36°30'

When did Texas win its independence from Mexico?

• 1821

• 1830

• 1836

• 1845

Which of the following was NOT a reason the United States was reluctant to annex Texas?

• The United States did not want to fight a war with Mexico.

• Annexing Texas would add more slave territory to the United States and anger abolitionists.

• Adding Texas would upset the balance between free and slave states in Congress.

• Texans considered U.S. citizens inferior and did not want to be part of their country.

The practice of allowing residents of territories to decide whether their land should be slave or free was called ________.

• the democratic process

• popular sovereignty

• The Wilmot Proviso

• The Free Soil solution

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

• Slavery was abolished in Washington, DC.

• A stronger fugitive slave law was passed.

• California was admitted as a free state.

• Residents of New Mexico and Utah were to decide for themselves whether their territories would be slave or free.

What did the Wilmot Proviso propose?

• Slavery should not be allowed in new states created in the west.

• All new western states should allow slavery.

• Each state should decide the issue of slavery for itself.

• Congress should decide which states should be free or slave states on a case-by-case basis.

What was the principal goal of the Free Soil party?

• To ensure that Americans would be free to do as they liked in the western territories, even if that meant having slaves.

• To stop the extension of slavery into the western territories.

• To offer free land, or "free soil" to farmers who wanted to move into the western territories.

• To lower fertilizer prices in the US.

Why did Americans want a war with Mexico?