New Territory & States
This state joined the United States in 1845 as a slave state
What is Texas?
This 1820 agreement attempted to balance free and slave states.
What is Missouri Compromise?
This proposal attempted to prevent slavery in land gained from Mexico
What is Wilmot Proviso?
This word means formally leaving a faction, organization, or country.
What is secession?
This war gave the United States a large amount of new western territory.
What is Mexican War?
This 1850 agreement attempted to reduce tensions between the North and South.
What is Compromise of 1850?
This 1854 law allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This group of Southern leaders strongly supported slavery and secession
Who are Fire-Eaters?
This state wanted to enter the Union as a free state after the Gold Rush?
What is California?
This person helped create the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
This was the idea that settlers could vote on whether slavery would be allowed.
(Free guess, no point deduction for incorrect answer)
What is popular sovereignty?
Mississippians were split on whether Mississippi should leave the Union in 1851 at this event.
What is Mississippi 1851 Convention?
This issue caused arguments when new territories and states were added.
What is slavery?
This 1850 meeting brought Southern leaders together to discuss protecting Southern interests.
What is the Nashville Convention?
This Supreme Court decision in 1857 increased tensions over slavery when an enslaved man who escaped to a free state demanded freedom.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
Mississippi's decided to do this about the Compromise of 1850.
Follow the rules of the compromise
As a result of the Mexican War, five new territories were added. Name 3 of the 5.
What is California?
What is Arizona?
What is New Mexico?
What is Utah?
What is Nevada?
This Mississippi politician who supported staying in the Union won the 1851 election.
Who is Foote?
Who is Henry Stuart Foote?
This 1859 event frightened many Southerners and increased tensions when a man attempted to obtain weapons and start an uprising to abolish slavery.
What is John Brown's Raid?
This term described the growing conflict between the North and South that seemed impossible to stop.
What is Irrepressible Conflict?