T9S3: “What political compromises were made because of slavery?”

1. What was the Wilmot Proviso?

• All new states will become slave states

• ban slavery in any lands the U.S. acquire from Mexico

• All new states will become free states

• it is up to the people of the state to whether allow or ban slavery

1. What was the Free Soil party’s motto?

• Free Land, Freedom, Free Labor, and Free Men

• Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Work, and Free Men

• Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men

• Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Lake, and Free People

1. To secede means to…

• to join an alliance

• to leave from an alliance

• to negotiate with an alliance

• to fight an alliance

1. What is a fugitive?

• a person who turns in a slave to its rightful slaveowner

• a prisoner

• a person who runs away from legal authority

• a person who commits a crime

1. Why was it a problem when California applied to become a free state? [choose 2]

• California would need to pay a lot of taxes for their decision

• free states would have more power in Congress

• slave states would have more power in Congress

• the balance of free states and slave states would be out of order

1. Explain what was the the Fugitive Slave Act?

• slaves must be returned to its owner

• slaves are free if they escape to free states

• slaves have no rights to begin with

• slaves can buy their way out of freedom

How did abolitionists worked around the Fugitive Slave Act? [choose 3]

• Northern juries did not follow the Fugitive Slave Act

• A group of people would buy freedom for enslaved people

• Intensified their Underground Railroad activity

• Encouraged slaves to fight against the slave owners to gain their freedom

1. What does popular sovereignty means?

• to become an independent nation

• the people can vote and decide whether to be a free or slave state

• to free all slaves from its slaveowners

• to allow the Supreme Court to decide whether to allow slavery or not

1. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854? Why was it so controversial? [choose 2]

• The people in Kansas and Nebraska can decide whether their state will be free or slave state

• It violates the Missouri Compromise because both Kansas and Nebraska should not be allowed to become slave states

• Nebraska became a slave state

• Slaves were allowed to vote as well

1. What was happening in Kansas that news broke out and titled it. “Bleeding Kansas?"

• Soldiers were sent to stop an outbreak

• British troops attacked civilians

• The northern states declared a war towards the southern states

• fights and killing were occurring between proslaves and antislaves