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The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery above what line of latitude?

• 36 36' North

• 36 30' North

• 54 40' North

• 50 44' North

____________ __________ allows for the people to vote and decide if slavery will be allowed or prohibited where they live.

• Popular Sovereignty

• The 11th Amendment

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Wilmot Proviso

David Wilmot wanted the lands gained from the Mexican Session to be _______

• Free

• Slave

• Tax Free

• Annexed into California

Why was it difficult for California to enter the Union?

• California wanted to be an independent nation like Texas had been.

• California was too far away from Washington D.C. to be protected by our government.

• California wanted to enter as a free state and that would offset the balance in the Senate

• California wanted to enter as a slave state and that would offset the balance in the Senate.

What was the role of Texas in the Compromise of 1850?

• Texas agreed to pay off it's own debts

• Texas gave up lands east of the Rio Grande.

• Texas agreed to abolish slavery in its borders

Where did trading slaves become illegal as part of the Compromise of 1850?

• California

• Virginia

• Washington D.C.

• Philadelphia

How did the new more effective Fugitive Slave Act get passed it Northerners hated it so much?

• It was agreed to as part of the Compromise of 1850 before the law was actually written

• The South had more control of the Senate since there were more slave states than free,

• The Fugitive Slave Law was changed after it was passed.

• The North felt that fugitive slaves were a problem, so they let the South write the law.

What made helping a fugitive slave a crime?

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Dred Scott case

• The Missouri Compromise

Under the Fugitive Slave Act, were runaway slaves safe in free states?

• No, slave catchers could now enter free states to recover runaways

• Yes once a runaway reach free soil, they could not be taken back to slavery

• No, they were not safe even in Canada

• Yes, fugitives were considered free once they crossed the Ohio River

Were fugitive slaves given a trial by jury?

• Yes

• No

• Sometimes