Compromise of 1850 falls apart

According to today's reading: leaders of this early-1800s religious revival promised that God would bless those who did the Lord’s work. For some Americans, the Lord’s work was the ___________.

• mandatory attendance at weekly services

• abolition of slavery

• mandatory attendance at monthly revivals

• voting rights for women

Congress did not want to confront this question. So, in 1836, Congress voted to table—or set aside indefinitely—all antislavery petitions. Outraged abolitionists called this action the _________

• Wilmont Proviso

• Missouri Compromise

• 1836 dodge

• gag rule

White Southerners deeply resented the abolitionists’ efforts to free enslaved people. After ________________ rebellion against enslavement in 1831, resentment turned to fear.

• Michael Jordan's

• Nat Turner’s

• Henry Wilmont

• Henry Clay

The ___________ stated that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist” in any part of the land that might be gotten from Mexico.

• Great Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

• Clay Proviso

Then, late in 1849, __________ applied for admission to the Union as a free state.

• Michigan

• Oregon

• Utah

• California

With Congress deadlocked over California’s request for statehood. Once again, Southerners spoke openly of withdrawing from the Union. And once again, angry Northerners denounced the enslavement of Black people. They felt slavery was a crime against humanity.

• All 3 true

• 2 true and one flase

• 1 true and 2 false

• All 3 false

The Compromise of 1850: It began by admitting California to the Union as a free state. This would please the North. Meanwhile, it allowed the ________ and ______ territories to decide whether to allow slavery. This would please the South. (Pick 2)

• New Mexico

• Utah

• Dakota

• Arkansas

• Oregon

In addition, Clay's Compromise of 1850 ended the selling and purchasing of enslaved people in ___________

• Boston MA

• Manassas VA

• Washington, D.C

• Columbia SC

• Tallahassee FL

Finally, Clay's Compromise of 1850 called for passage of a strong law targeting fugitives (run aways) from slavery.

• True

• False

Congress debated the Compromise of 1850 for _____ months.

• twelve

• nine

• fourteen

• five and a half