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Why did the Whigs pick Zachary Taylor as their presidential candidate in 1848?
WAR HERO
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What party nominated Martin Van Buren in 1848?
FREE SOIL PARTY
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Why did even anti-slavery Southerners oppose the efforts of Northerners to ban slavery?
OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE
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What was the main issue concerning California becoming a state?
UPSETTING BALANCE IN THE SENATE
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How—if Missouri t came into the union as a slave state—was the balance in the Senate maintained?
MAINE WOULD ENTER AS A FREE STATE
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Why did Northerner Daniel Webster support the Compromise if he was against slavery?
NEW TERRITORIES UNSUITED FOR SLAVERY—UNION IS MOST IMPORTANT THING
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When did Texas become a state?
1845
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What was the main result of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
CONVINCED NORTHERNERS OF THE EVILS OF SLAVERY
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Who guided the Missouri Compromise through the House of Representatives?
HENRY CLAY
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What did Southern states threaten to do if California entered the Union as a free state?
SECEDE
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What part of the US government was evenly balanced between slave and free states?
SENATE
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When did California apply for statehood?
1849
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How many free and slave states were there in 1819
ELEVEN EACH
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What are two provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
EVERYONE HAS TO HELP CATCH SLAVES; FINES AND PRISONS FOR HELPING ESCDAPING SLAVES
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What territory applied for statehood with a constitution allowing slavery in 1819?
MISSOURI
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Who came up with the compromise that allowed California to become a state?
HENRY CLAY
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Where did Congress ban the future expansion of slavery?
NORTH OF THE 36-30 LINE—THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF MISSOURI EXTENDED ACROSS THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE
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What was the motto of the Free-Soil Party in 1848?
FREE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, FREE LABOR, FREE MEN
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Who said that neither Congress nor any territorial government had the power to ban slavery in the territory?
JOHN C. CALHOUN
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Who divided Clay’s compromise into five separate bills to get it through Congress?
STEPHEN DOUGLAS
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What did the Wilmot Proviso want to ban?
SLAVERY IN ANY TERRITORY ACQUIRED FROM THE MEXICAN WAR
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What two things did the Sothern slave states get from the Compromise of 1850?
STRONGER FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT; POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN UTAH AND NEW MEXICO
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How many years passed between the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
30 YEARS
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What was banned/not banned in Washington, DC, after 1850?
SLAVE TRADE/SLAVERY
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Why wasn’t Texas affected by the Missouri Compromise?
PART OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE; WAS NEVER A US TERRITORY, SOUTH OF THE LINE