Chapter 4 Test

MS first state constitution, was written before MS was admitted to statehood

• Constitution of 1817

• Compromise of 1850

• Constitution of 1832

• Wilmont Proviso

a person who wanted to end slavery

• fire eaters

• abolitionists

• annexation

• free soilers

roads, bridges, canals, and other transportation needs

• secession

• internal improvements

• annexation

• flatboats

compromise wherein California was admitted as a free state

• Compromise of 1990

• Compromise of 1875

• Compromise of 1850

• Consitution of 1832

the overland route that followed a northeasterly path beginning in Natchez

• Natchez Trace

• Natchez Trail

• North Trace

• North Trail

a large boat with a flat bottom and square ends, used for carrying freight downstream

• barge

• flatboat

• steam boat

• canoe

a bill that did not pass in Congress, that attempted to exclude slavery for any territory that America ight acquire from Mexico in the Mexican War

• Compromise of 1850

• Proviso Willhem

• Wilmont Proviso

• Dred Scott Decision

True or False:

The Louisiana Purchase tripled the size of the United States.

• True

• False

a 1787 law that established the Northwest Territory, provided for its government, and forbade slavery int the territory

• Northwest Ordinance

• Northeast Ordinance

• Missouri Compromise

• Natchez Trace

group of southern politicians who actively advocated succession

• abolitionists

• fire eaters

• free soilers

• slaves