Exit Slip M17 L1&2 (A)

What was the result of the United States winning the Mexican-American War in 1848?

• The United States lost a lot of land.

• The United States added more than 500,000 square miles of land.

• The United States entered into a period of peace with no internal debates.

• The United States divided the Louisiana Purchase into free or slave regions.

What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 establish?

• It allowed slavery throughout the United States.

• It divided the Louisiana Purchase into free and slave regions based on the 36°30' line.

• It made California enter the Union as a free state.

• It settled the nullification crisis of 1832–33.

What concept did Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan encourage that pertains to political power belonging to the people?

• Federalism

• Popular sovereignty

• Nullification

• Manifest Destiny

What was one of the points in Senator Henry Clay's plan in the Compromise of to maintain peace in the nation?

• Texas would extend its territory east of the upper Rio Grande.

• The rest of the Mexican Cession would become a slave state.

• California would enter the Union as a free state.

• Maine becomes a free state

According to Clay's plan in the Compromise of 1850, what would happen to the rest of the Mexican Cession?

• It would be divided into two parts, Kansas and Nebraska

• It would be returned to Mexico.

• It would be federal land where popular sovereignty would decide on slavery.

• It would automatically become a slave region.

What was Texas expected to do in Clay's plan?

• Texas would keep all its land

• Texas would give up land east of the upper Rio Grande.

• Texas would extend its territory to the West Coast.

• Texas would enter the Union as a slave state.

What did the newly passed Fugitive Slave Act make a crime?

• Helping slaves stay on the plantations

• Return fugitive slaves to slaveholders

• Testifying against slaveholders

• Refusing to return fugitives to slaveholders

What did the Missouri Compromise require for the land from the Louisiana Purchase?

• It should be divided equally between slave and free states.

• It should be sold to fund the railroad.

• It should be free territory above the 36*30* line and slave below that line

• It should all be slave territory

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• An act that supported the construction of a southern railroad route.

• A plan to divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories with the decision of slavery left to the people.

• A proposal to open all new territories to slavery without restriction.

• Legislation that reinforced the Missouri Compromise's restriction on slavery.

How did antislavery northerners react to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• They supported it as it provided a clear solution to the issue of slavery.

• They were indifferent as it did not affect the northern states.

• They were outraged and believed it could turn free territory into a region full of slavery.

• They celebrated because it would eliminate slavery in the new territories.