Who was the person that came up with the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
Who led a raid in Kansas and hacked pro-slavery people, leaving their mutilated bodies out for others to see.
John Brown
Under the Missouri Compromise which state was added as a free state?
Maine
Who was the Senator from Massachusetts beaten with a cane for talking poorly about another Senator and about slavery.
Charles Sumner
Who came up with the idea and helped pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas
Why did the Wilmot Proviso not pass in the Senate?
There were an equal number of slave and free states
The person who spoke for the south and was opposed to the Compromise of 1850?
John C. Calhoun
According to the Missouri Compromise what was the line of latitude that separated free from slave?
36 30
Who won the election of 1848 and became president?
Zachary Taylor
Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
In the Compromise of 1850 what happened with the slave trade in Washington DC?
It was abolished (but Congress could not ban slave trade between slave states)
In the Compromise of 1850 a border dispute was settled between Texas and what territory?
New Mexico
a runaway slave
fugitive
In the Compromise of 1850 how was the issue of slavery going to be decided in the Utah and New Mexico territories?
Popular Sovereignty (voting)
Who was the Free Soil candidate in the election of 1848?
Martin Van Buren