Missouri Compromise
This state tried to join the Union as a slave state in 1819, upsetting the balance between slave and free states.
What is Missouri?
The western free state which tried to join the Union in 1850, causing another crisis between free and slave states.
What was California?
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of a series of bills passed by Congress known as the:
Compromise of 1850.
What issue did North and South disagree on?
What is slavery?
What is Rome?
The two states brought into the United States as part of the Missouri Compromise.
What are Maine and Missouri?
This person returned to broker another Compromise between North and South
Who was Henry Clay?
How the North felt about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Angry, Upset, Mad, Etc
Finish this statement: Free and Slave states always tried to find a __________ in Congress
What is a balance?
The largest state in the United States
What is Alaska?
The person who helped broker the Missouri Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
Two points of the Compromise of 1850.
California would join as a free state
The Mexican Cession territory would be split up, and they would vote whether to be free or anti slave
A stricter anti-fugitive slave act would be passed.
Which side was happy about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Who is neither?
Compromise between North and South that stated slaves would be counted as 3/5s of a states population
What was the 3/5s Compromise?
The President on the Dime
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
The territory of the United States that the Missouri Compromise did not apply to.
What were the Western Territories?
Southern Senator who strongly opposed any compromise over slavery
Who was John C. Calhoun.
What Northerners were forced to do as part of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Assist slave catchers in catching runaway slaves
This early legislation allowed slave catchers to cross state lines in order to catch runaways.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793?
Muhammad Ali's Real Name
What is Cassius Clay
The Party formed after the Missouri Compromise with the number one goal of stopping slaveries spread west.
What was the Free-Soil Party?
The president who helped passed the Compromise of 1850.
Who was Millard Fillmore?
Northern state that fought back against the Fugitive Slave Act by declaring any slave that came there would be free regardless of circumstances.
What was Vermont?
The number of slave and free states in the United States before the Missouri Compromise
What is eleven?
If Who is on first, What is on second, and I Don't Know is on third, then who is pitching?
Who is Tomorrow?