If southern states seceded from the Union, then ....
The union would split in two and be separate countries.
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What was the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay's proposal to use popular sovereignty to decide whether new states had slavery, except California and DC would be a free state.
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What did southerners want congress to do about enslaved people who had fled to the North?
pass a law that would force the return of fugitives
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Did the Wilmont Provisio successfully address the nation's divisions over slavery? What effect did it have on the nation?
No, it angered and frightened the South
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What were the main issues that led to Henry Clay's proposed compromise?
California applying to be a state, northern desire to ban the slave trade in the District of Columbia (DC), and the South wanting a fugitive slave law.
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What was the goal of the free soil party?
to prevent the spread of slavery to territory gained in the Mexican-American War
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How did Stephen Douglas's plan undo the Missouri Compromise?
By allowing the territories to use popular sovereignty to decide the use of slavery, the Missouri Compromise ban was ended.
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Who was Daniel Webster?
Massachusetts Senator, supported Henry Clay's proposals and called for an end to the bitter sectionalism that was dividing the nation
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What event did both southerners worry would destroy the balance of power between them?
The admission of California into the Union
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Why was the South alarmed by the Wilmot Proviso?
Banning new slave states would give free states a majority in both houses of Congress
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How did the Kansas-Nebraska act affect the population of the territories?
The population increased as settlers flooded into the territory
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What was the Wilmont Proviso?
a proposed law that would have banned slavery from lands gained as a result of the Mexican-American War.
