Road to Civil War

What proposal would ban slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico?

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive slave law

• Missouri Compromise

Which two outcomes resulted from the Compromise of 1850?

• Southern state legislators failed to get a new fugitive-slave law passed. 

• New territories were given the power to decide the issue of slavery. 

• A parallel was designated as the boundary between free and slave states. 

• The Florida territory was purchased from Spain and admitted as a free state. 

• California was admitted into the Union as a free state. 

What approach did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propose as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?

• Gadsden Purchase

• Texas-Maine Act

• popular sovereignty

• free soil

The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use popular sovereignty to determine whether the territory would be free or slave. This decision applied to much of the land gained from the-

• Revolutionary War

• War of 1812

• U.S. - Mexican War

• Civil War

What was the fundamental question addressed in each of these congressional acts?

• Should the U.S. expand westward?

• Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

• Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

• Should states be able to secede from the Union?

Henry Clay was known as the "Great Compromiser" because he –

• allowed slavery to expand into the West.

• helped people get along better.

• reinforced the need for a stronger fugitive slave law.

• resolved the conflict between the North and South over slavery's expansion.

(a)   pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote.

(a)   anti-slavery activists who clashed with pro-slavery groups from Missouri that crossed the Kansas border.

Which of the following events caused fighting to break out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas?

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1820

• Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

• Dred Scott v. Sanford 1857

Who was an abolitionist who decided that it was his duty to punish pro-slavery forces in Kansas?

• Preston Brooks

• Charles Sumner

• Andrew P. Butler

• John Brown