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Why did president Taylor feel California was unimportant to the South?
What is because its climate and terrain were not suited to growing cotton.
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Who was able to pass the Compromise of 1850 by submitting each part of the plan as a separate bill?
Who is Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois
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What did Southerners begin to question as the controversy over slavery in the new territories intensified?
What is the whether the South should remain in the Union.
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On July 9, 1850, president Taylor fell ill and died. Who became the new president?
Who is Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the United States
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What was the name of the series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states?
What is the Compromise of 1850
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As a result of the Compromise of 1850, which former Mexican territory would be admitted as a free state?
What is California
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Which bill would have banned slavery in any of the new territories acquired from Mexico?
What is the Wilmot Proviso
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As a result of the Compromise of 1850, which state would the federal government pay $10 million to surrender its claim to New Mexico?
What is Texas
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What is the term for the formal withdrawal from the union?
What is secession.
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What is the term for a person who is running away to avoid arrest or prosecution?
What is a a fugitive.
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As a result of the Compromise of 1850, where would slavery be abolished?
What is in the capital, Washington, D.C. (the District of Columbia).
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Why did Southerners feel California should be a slave state?
What is because most of it lay south of the Missouri Compromise line.
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As a result of the Compromise of 1850, which two territories would use popular sovereignty to resolve the issue of slavery?
What are the New Mexico territory and Utah territory.
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What was the name of the imaginary line that ran through the western territories? It was created in 1820?
What is the Missouri Compromise Line
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What is the term for a clause in a document or agreement?
What is a provision.
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What did Southerners see as an attack on "the southern way of life"—slave society?
What is any move to block slavery in the new territories.
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What did Southerners accuse the North of failing to enforce?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.
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As a result of the Compromise of 1850, a stricter fugitive slave law written. What did the new law require?
What is that Northerners return escaped slaves to their masters.
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What is the term for the idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery?
What is popular sovereignty.
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Who did president Taylor believe should solve the issue of slavery in the new territories?
What is the people who lived in the individual territories—popular sovereignty.
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Which new group in the North opposed slavery? Why?
What is - immigrants, because they feared that if slavery was allowed in the North, they would lose their jobs.
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In what way did Southerners believe the Wilmot proviso violated their rights?
What is - they argued that they had a right to slaves in the new territories, because slaves were property— and property was protected by the Constitution.
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How might Congressional power shift if the new territories became slave states?
What is - if the new territories became slave states, the number of pro-slave representatives would increase in Congress. This could give the South control over lawmaking.
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Why did both Northerners and Southerners approve of popular sovereignty?
What is - they believe it was a more democratic way to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories; it left open the possibility that their side could prevail.
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The issue of slavery was temporarily resolved in 1820 with the Missouri Compromise. Why did slavery become a problem again by 1850?
What is - because the United States had gained an enormous amount of land from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War (the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo), the Texas Revolution, and the Gadsden Purchase.
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