Slavery Controversies in the New Territories Exercise

Slavery Controversies in the New Territories

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Slavery Controversies in the New Territories

Explore how territorial expansion intensified national debates over the spread of slavery. Learn about political compromises and growing sectional divisions as new lands were acquired.

Questions

  1. MultiChoice

    Why did territorial expansion westwards trigger severe political arguments in Congress?

  2. MultiChoice

    What was the primary goal of the Wilmot Proviso introduced during the Mexican-American War?

  3. MultiChoice

    Which political party was formed in 1848 with the main goal of stopping the expansion of slavery into western territories?

  4. MultiChoice

    What concept proposed that voters living in a territory should decide for themselves whether to allow slavery?

  5. MultiChoice

    Which major congressional package attempted to solve the crisis over land gained from Mexico in 1850?

  6. MultiChoice

    How did the Compromise of 1850 handle California's application for statehood?

  7. MultiChoice

    What strict law was included in the Compromise of 1850 to appease Southern slaveholders?

  8. MultiChoice

    How did the balance of power in the U.S. Senate change when California entered the Union as a free state?

  9. MultiChoice

    Which famous senator from Kentucky, known as the 'Great Compromiser', drafted the Compromise of 1850?

  10. MultiChoice

    Why was the slave trade abolished in Washington, D.C. as part of the Compromise of 1850?

  11. MultiChoice

    How did territorial gains from Manifest Destiny contribute to the outbreak of the American Civil War?

  12. MultiChoice

    Which Southern politician argued strongly that Congress had no constitutional right to restrict slavery in any new territory?