Author Question: Solutions proposed for the issue of slavery in the territories included all of the following EXCEPT: ... (Read 63 times)

fox · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The only part of the Compromise of 1850 strongly supported by the South was:

A) throwing open Indian Territory to slavery.
B) postponing a determination of the boundaries of Texas.
C) admission of California to the union as a slave state.
D) the enactment of a Fugitive Slave Law.

Question 2

Incidents involving Anthony Burns and Thomas Sims demonstrated that the federal government:

A) had no desire to offend northern abolitionists.
B) would vigorously enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
C) would only enforce the Fugitive Slave Law in the South.
D) would use the Fugitive Slave Law to recover blacks who fled to Canada.

Question 3

Solutions proposed for the issue of slavery in the territories included all of the following EXCEPT:

A) the Wilmot Proviso.
B) popular sovereignty.
C) legalization of slavery in California only.
D) a stronger fugitive slave law.