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Which compromises allowed California to enter the union as a free state while the southwestern territories could decide the slavery issue on their own?
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What act allowed settlers in the territories to decide whether to allow slavery?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Why were the compromises ineffective in resolving the issue of expansion of slavery to the territories?
The compromises were infective in resolving the issue of slavery for a number of reasons. For one, popular sovereignty allowed those within the border states to decide whether they wanted slavery or not. Since the decision was not federally mandated, free soil partisans and border ruffians often clashed over the issue of slavery. This was especially true in Kansas, which became a hotbed for abolitionist and pro-slavery groups. It would literally take a 4 year Civil War to help free the slaves in the border states and throughout the rest of the country.
Which statement best reflects the main goal of the free-soil party?
They didn't want let let slavery spread to the western territories
Who was the people that the compromise of 1850 allowed people to decide whether they wanted slavery?
The Compromise of 1850 did not allow any choice in the matter. It reflected the increasing difficulty of creating new slave-states. It was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 that allowed the people of those two territories to vote on the slavery question. The only time it was tried (in Kansas), it led to terrible bloodshed, and was not tried again. The result was that Kansas rejected slavery.
Which describes the importance of the Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
The Union victory at Gettysburg prevented the Confederate armies from continuing their attack into Northern territories. The Union victory at Vicksburg allowed the Union Navy to use the river to sail deep into Confederate territories.
Why did the Missouri compromises not prevent the US Civil War?
Both the Missouri compromises gave the US more time to consider the issue of slavery and whether slavery would be allowed in the new US territories. There is no direct linkage to the last Missouri compromise of 1850 and the US Civil War.
Territories they often allowed conquered people to?
When the Romans conquered territories, they often allowed conquered people to __________.
What allowed us to get California and New Mexico to complete manifest destiny?
It wasn't "allowed" as such; both territories were taken by force from Mexico during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). See related questions for further details.
Who drafted the compromise that established California as a free state and allowed the territories of Utah and New Mexico to decide the slavery issue popular sovereignty?
Henry Clay
Who allowed California to be admitted to the union as a free state?
The Compromise of 1850 contained approval for California to enter the union as a free state. This package of five bills passed by the US Congress had compromises on several issues that were disputed between the southern slave states and the northern states.
What are some of the compromises the south gave to the north?
They agreed that slavery should be illegal North of a certain parallel. They allowed California to enter the Union as free soil. They conceded that the trans-continental railroad should pass through Chicago instead of Texas.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. The people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. The people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether slavery would be allowed there. What effect did this have on Kansas?
What Territories were allowed to elect their own lawmaking bodies but who was the governor?
boobless
What was the controversy over the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It said were slavery was allowed in territories.
Who proposed that slavery would not allowed in the territories of the Mexican cession?
David Wilmot
Who proposed that slavery would not be allowed in the territories of Mexican Cession?
David Wilmot, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso in 1846, which sought to ban slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War. The proviso was never passed into law but fueled tensions over the expansion of slavery in the United States.
How many slave states or slave territories entered the union after the admission of California?
4. The Utah, New Mexico, Nebraska, and Kansas Territories. They were open to slavery because of the 1850 Compromise which said that these states had the right to choose whether they wanted to be a free state or slave state, allowed them to. This was allowed because Congress had never dealt with something like this. It wasn't written into law, so the states were able to choose for themselves.
