Manifest Destiny and Compromises before the Civil War

What year did Missouri apply for statehood?

• 1802

• 1803

• 1819

• 1845

Match the following groups to where they settled in the west

• Utah

• Mormons

• Rocky Mountains

• Pioneers

• Oregon

• 49ers

• California

• Missionaries

• Oregon, California

• Mountain Men

In the Missouri Compromise, (a)   entered the Union as a slave state and (b)   entered the Union as a free state.

• Missouri

• Maine

• Mississippi

• California

What do we call the imaginary line drawn in the Louisiana territory separating free territories from slave territories?

• Compromise of 1820 Line

• Missouri Compromise Line

• 25 26 Line

• 36 30 Line

After the US/Mexican War, both countries signed the Treaty of (a)   in which Mexico ceded the (b)   to the United States.

• Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Mexican Cession

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Treaty of Paris, 1783

• Texas

• Florida

In 1849 thousands of people migrated to California in the...

• Mormon migration

• Gold Rush

• Oregon migration

Match the following descriptions to the Compromise, or Act, it goes with

• Compromise of 1850

• California enters as a free state

• Missouri Compromise

• 36 30 line to dived free territories and slave territories in Louisiana Territory

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Kansas will use Popular Sovereignty to decide on slavery

• Missouri Compromise

• Maine enters the Union as a free state

• Compromise of 1850

• No more slave trade in Washington D.C.

Who is known as the Great Compromiser?

• John C. Calhoun

• Stephen Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

In which land acquisition did we pay Mexico $10 million to complete a railroad?

• The Gadsden Purchase

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Mexican Cession

• Texas Annexation

Which two groups moved to California to find gold?

• the Chinese

• The Mormons

• The Pioneers

• The 49ers