Key People
This president died in 1850 after only about 16 months in office.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
This 1820 agreement created a line at 36°30′ to limit slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This land was gained from Mexico in 1848 and caused debates over slavery.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This new party opposed the spread of slavery into new territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
This issue caused conflict between the North and South after the Mexican Cession.
What is the expansion of slavery?
This vice president became president after Taylor’s death and supported the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Millard Fillmore?
This proposal tried to ban slavery in all land gained from Mexico but failed.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This event brought thousands of people to California in 1849.
What is the California Gold Rush?
These two major parties avoided taking a clear stance on slavery in 1848.
What are the Democrats and Whigs?
The Wilmot Proviso increased tension because it threatened this balance.
What is the balance between free and slave states?
This congressman introduced a proposal to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico.
Who is David Wilmot?
This agreement admitted California as a free state and used popular sovereignty in new territories.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This state entered the Union as a free state in 1850.
What is California?
This party lost votes to the Free Soil Party in the 1848 election.
What is the Democratic Party?
California entering as a free state worried the South because of this.
What is losing power in the Senate?
This senator from Kentucky created the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This city banned the slave trade as part of the Compromise of 1850.
What is Washington DC?
This candidate won the election of 1848 as a Whig.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
The Compromise of 1850 temporarily solved tensions but did this long-term.
What is delay the Civil War?
This former president ran as the Free Soil Party candidate in 1848.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
This idea allowed people in a territory to vote on slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
These two territories used popular sovereignty to decide on slavery.
What are Utah and New Mexico?
This issue caused divisions within and between political parties.
What is slavery in new territories?
This growing loyalty to one region over the country increased during this time.
What is sectionalism?