mo compromise

Why did the South feel the need to expand slavery into new territories?

• To find new markets for their goods

• To build more cities

• To increase their population

• Due to soil exhaustion and economic reasons

What was one of the main outcomes of the Compromise of 1850?

• California was admitted as a free state

• California was admitted as a slave state

• The Fugitive Slave Act was repealed

• Texas gained more territory

What did the Fugitive Slave Act require Northerners to do?

• Provide jobs for escaped slaves

• Help slaves escape to Canada

• Ignore runaway slaves

• Return runaway slaves to the South

What was the main idea behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• To allow Congress to decide on slavery in new territories

• To let settlers in new territories decide on slavery

• To make all new states free states

• To make all new states slave states

What was Abraham Lincoln's view on the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• He was indifferent to its effects

• He thought it would end the slavery debate

• He believed it disrupted the existing compromise on slavery

• He supported it as a fair compromise