Slavery Compromises

This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 

• Fugitive Slave Act 

• Bleeding Kansas

• Missouri Compromise 

• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

Any new territory that becomes a state NORTH of the 36-30 line would be a _____ state.

• Free

• Slave

• Sovereign

• Abolitionist

As part of the agreement in the Compromise of 1850, how would slavery in the remaining territory of Utah and New Mexico from the Mexican Cession be decided?

• The Senate would vote

• The House of Representatives would vote

• The President would decide

• Popular sovereignty- the people in the territory would vote

What is the fundamental issue behind the Missouri Compromise, and the Compromise of 1850?

• Should the US expand Westward?

• Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

• Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

• Should states be able to secede from the Union?

Established that the 36 30 parallel would determine is states would enter the US as slave or free

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

What was the Major effect of the Kansas Nebraska Act?

• Fighting broke out between slave and anti-slave people in Kansas.

• Kansas joined the USA as a slave state.

• Fewer people moved to Kansas because of the Act.

• Nebraska joined the USA as a free state.

Which was passed first?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

California entered the US as a free state

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

The trading of slaves was banned in Washington DC

• Missouri Compromse

• Compromise of 1850

Created the Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850