Lesson 21: Introduction Vocab

What term refers to a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution?

• confront

• ensure

• fugitive

• Missouri Compromise

Which term is used to describe the act of dealing with a problem or difficulty openly and not avoiding it?

• confront

• ensure

• fugitive

• Wilmot Proviso

What is the name of the agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories?

• confront

• ensure

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

Which term means to make certain that something shall occur or be the case?

• confront

• ensure

• fugitive

• Wilmot Proviso

What is the name of the legislative proposal that would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession?

• confront

• ensure

• fugitive

• Wilmot Proviso

Which agreement was made in 1850 in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South by addressing the status of slavery in the territories?

• confront

• ensure

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

What term describes a person who flees or tries to escape, for example, from slavery?

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

• Fugitive

• Missouri Compromise

What were the agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a state without slavery called?

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

• Fugitive

• Missouri Compromise

What was the proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War?

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

• Fugitive

• Missouri Compromise

What is the name of the agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a state with slavery and Maine was admitted as a state without slavery?

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

• Fugitive

• Missouri Compromise