The Compromise of 1850

Who was "The Great Compromiser"?

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• Andrew Jackson

How did Henry Clay impact the Civil War?

• delayed by reducing tensions through compromise

• started it by seceding in his state

• became president and declared war

• increased tensions through sectionalism

Henry Clay's compromises managed to ...

• earn him the presidency

• gain foreign allies

• start war

• balance power between states

What were Northerners most upset about with the Compromise?

• Solution to land dispute

• California becoming a free slave

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The end of slave trade

How did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" contribute to the failure of the Compromise? (Choose all that apply)

• Made Northerners finally open their eyes to the cruelty

• It made everyone rich

• Exposed the South

• It created more land for Southerners

What part of the Compromise of 1850 caused the most conflict between the North and the South?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Balance of power in Congress

• That California was entered as a slave state

• That Oregon became a slave state.

What did the Compromise of 1850 say about the other territories acquired by the US from Mexico?

• The people would decide whether they wanted slavery.

• They would automatically become slave states.

• Slavery was banned.

• All of the above.

The Fugitive Slave Act...

• increased Underground Railroad Activity.

• led to resistance in the North.

• infuriated abolitionists.

• All of the above

Which was a fear of Southern senators if there were more free states than slave states?

• losing respect

• losing tax revenue

• losing voting power

• losing future elections

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

• Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law

• Unlike freedmen, slaves were welcomed into the gold mines of California

• Members of both groups could be sold in Washington D.C. Slave markets

• Unlike slaves, freedmen could vote in territories gained by the Mexican Cession.