Missouri Compromise
The year that the Missouri Compromise was signed
1810 1820 1830 1840
1820
The Mexican War years
1846-1848, 1832-1840, or 1861-1865
1846-1848
What state entered the Union as a free state because of the Compromise of 1850?
Missouri Maine California Mexico
California
What territories were formed as a result of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
Kansas and Nebraska
Name the Supreme Court decision that declared that slaves or free blacks were not citizens?
Dred Scott Decision or Brown v The Board of Education
Dred Scott Decision
Did Missouri entered the Union as a slave state or a free state?
slave state
Who was the President who wanted to go to war with Mexico?
Polk
What state was annexed into the U.S. right before the Mexican American War?
Texas California The entire U.S. Florida
Texas
What was repealed as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise (36*30 line)
What was the goal of Congress in each compromise?
Congress wanted to keep the balance of power between slave and free states.
What free state entered the Union to balance the slave state Missouri?
Maine?
Who was the main General for the U.S. during the Mexican War?
Zachary Taylor
Who was mad that California entered the union?
Slave states. or. Free states
Slave states
What was the concept where people would vote about becoming a slave state or a free state?
Popular sovereignty or Manifest Destiny
Popular Sovereignty
The Missouri Compromise declared that all future states above this line will be free states
54* 40'. or 36* 30'
36* 30' ?
New states needed to decide to become slave or free states. This was a big problem because...
People have trouble deciding
or
Free and slave states wanted to have power in the Senate.
Free and slave states wanted to have power in the Senate.
What part of the Compromise of 1850 forced runaway slaves to be returned to the South?
Hint: The F... S... A...
The Fugitive Slave Act
Who sent people to Kansas and Nebraska to vote/decide on slavery?
Slave states, Free states, or. Slave & Free states
Slave & Free states
What did we call the idea that the U.S. should keep moving west and control North America?
Popular Sovereignty or Manifest Destiny?
Manifest Destiny?
Was the Missouri Compromise about the War of 1812 or power in Congress?
Power in Congress
Why did Polk want California so much?
Empty land, Trade, or GOLD!
GOLD!!!!!
This was the name of the concept where people decide on the issue of slavery
Popular Sovereignty. or. Manifest Destiny?
popular sovereignty
True or False: People from Slave and Free states hated each other in Kansas.
True!
Why do you think it was called bloody Kansas???
Slave states were mostly in the
north, south, or west
south