Differences Between the North And South
What got Strung along railroad tracks which connected people?
What are telegraph wires?
Which president supported California's admission as a free state?
Who is Zachary Taylor
What States did the 31st Congress focus heavily on?
What is California and Texas
Zach taylor's successor, becoming the 13th president, and most openly in favor of the compromise?
Who is Millard Fillmore
The formal withdrawal of a state from the union?
What is Secession
What city evolved practically overnight due to the sudden connections and advances in the North?
What is Chicago
What region supported the Wilmot Proviso?
What is the Northerners
How long did it take for the Compromise of 1850 to pass?
What is 8 months
Took over the pro-compromise reins after Henry Clay was discouraged?
Who is Stephen A. Douglas
The right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery?
What is Popular Sovereignty
While the North relied on trains for transportation, what did the South rely on?
What is river transportation
What state is Democrat David Wilmot from?
What is Pennsylvania?
How did the Senate first vote on the compromise?
What is failed
Introduced an amendment to a bill proposing "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in any territory the United States might acquire as result of the war with Mexico?
Who is David Wilmot
California, Utah and New Mexico would be closed to Slavery forever?
What is the Wilmot Proviso
In the 1850s at this time the North was known for what two things?
What is industry and immigration
What region believed that "Slaves were property and property was protected by the constitution?"
What is the South
How did the North benefits from the Compromise of 1850?
What is California was admitted into the union as a free state
Wrote the compromise of 1850?
Who is Henry Clay
A series of resolutions Henry Clay proposed to settle slavery debate?
What is the Compromise of 1850
In the 1850s at this time the South was known for what two things?
What is agriculture and slavery
Why did the North Support the Proviso, while the South opposed it?
What is the Northerners supported because they were angry over the refusal of Southern congressmen to vote for things like buildings, canals and roads.
The Southerners opposed the Proviso because they feared power would shift to the North.
What are 3 of the 5 aspects of the compromise of 1850?
What is California admitted as free state, New Mexico and Utah got to vote on slavery, the slave law trade ended in DC, congress passed a new fugitive slave law, and Texas would give up New Mexico claims for $10 million
What man said "I wish to speak today not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American... ' Hear me for my cause"?
Who is Daniel Webster
Mainly; for the most part
What is Predominantly