Compromise of 1850 Quizzes
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Q. Which earlier work of legislation set the precedent for the Compromise of 1850, by dealing with a similar political situation?
The Missouri Compromise
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Monroe Doctrine
The Connecticut state law dictating that for a pickle to be legally considered a pickle, it must bounce.
Q. Why did California's request to be admitted as a state create conflict in the Senate?
It asked to be admitted as a free state, which upset the balance between slave and free states in the Senate.
The conservative southern states feared another "Summer of Love"
Some of the requirements for statehood had not been met.
People knew the San Andreas fault would eventually split it apart and then it would count as two free states.
Q. How did the Mexican-American War influence the Compromise of 1850?
It gave the United States lots of land, which then had to be organized into new territories or states.
Seeing the way Mexico used slavery in the west made many Americans start to question its use in the U.S.
The deaths of many young southern men made southerners more insistent on keeping the plantation economy, including slavery, because there was no other labor.
It motivated Americans to compromise, because they had literally run out of bullets and couldn't really handle another war.
Q. Who was in the Great Triumvirate?
Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay, Millard Fillmore, Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Stephen A. Douglas
Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas
Q. Why were many northerners against the Compromise of 1850?
It included an enhanced Fugitive Slave Act that forced northerners to participate in capturing runaway slaves.
Although they didn't want slavery in the north, they believed the South had a right to the same opportunities for westward expansion.
Bringing slavery into western territories meant fewer opportunities for white farmers to have a chance to earn a living off of that land.
A prominent southern senator managed to get the phrase "Northerners are dorks" slipped into one of the statues.