Unit 10 mini review

How did the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 show differences between free and enslaved African Americans?

• Both compromises expanded rights for enslaved African Americans, but limited the rights of free African Americans in new free states.

• Free African Americans gained new rights to vote and hold office in new free states while enslaved African Americans lacked any rights

• Both compromises limited the spread of slavery to east of the Mississippi River, allowing enslaved African Americans who escaped slavery to gain their freedom and political rights in free states.

• Slavery was allowed in some new states while other states allowed freedom for African Americans

What was a result of the Missouri Compromise?

• The Kansas City Chiefs agreed to give the Philadelphia Eagles a chance in the Super Bowl

• The slave trade ended

• Only slave states where admitted into the union

• The power of the government was split between slave and free states

Which of these physical geographic factors in the Northern US helped grow industry?

• Alien UFOs

• Mineral-rich soils

• Natural harbors

• Mild climate conditions

Which southern city served as a busy port of entry for goods and immigrants in the mid-1800s?

• Galveston

• Atlanta

• Houston

• The cornfields of Nevada, TX

California becoming a free state, strict fugitive slave law adopted, and Texas' debt paid in exchange for adjustment of the Texas boundary are all parts of what?

• Compromise of 1850

• Tariff Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise