MS 8.1 Conflicts and Compromises

As part of the Missouri Compromise, Congress banned slavery, except in Missouri, south of an imaginary line through

• the nation.

• the Mexican Cession.

• the Louisiana Purchase.

• the area west of the Appalachians.

California's request for admission to the Union was seen as a threat to

• free states.

• slave states.

• abolitionists.

• other western territories.

Why did the Mexican Cession intensify debates about slavery in the United States?

• Slavery was already permitted in these new territories, which went against the Missouri Compromise.

• The nation needed to decide whether slavery would be allowed in these new territories.

• The Wilmot Proviso allowed slavery in all territories gained by the Mexican Cession.

• The people in the Mexican Cession territories wanted slavery while the rest of the nation did not.

What was the main goal of the Free-Soil Party?

• to abolish slavery

• to ban slavery in farming regions

• to ban slavery in new western lands

• to allow slavery in new western lands

What did California's request for admission to the Union as a free state cause John Calhoun to threaten?

• the secession of southern states

• the re-emergence of state nullification

• southern support for its entrance as a slave state

• the capture of runaway slaves in the South by force

What was one purpose of the Compromise of 1850?

• to end the forced return of runaway enslaved African Americans

• to allow California to enter the Union as a free state

• to extend the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• to ban the slave trade between slave states

Which of the following most accurately describes who was required to help catch runaway slaves under the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• all northern officials

• all northern citizens

• all southern citizens

• all citizens anywhere