Chapter 12 section 2

Slavery and the West

Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave holding state

Maine was admitted as a free state

The Virginia and Kentucky resolution of 1798-1799 declared

that the federalist’s alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional

The nullification issue was raised against in the 1820’s and 1830’s by

southerners over the issue of protective tariffs

In 1832 what state voted for an Ordinance of Nullification withdrawn?

• South Carolina

In 1833 compromise, the tariff was___ and the Ordinance of

Nullification withdrawn

• Lowered

____, where slavery existed, became a state in 1845.

• Texas

The_________ specified that slavery should be prohibited in any

lands acquired by Mexico

• The Wilmot Proviso.

________ believed that the government could not ban or

regulate slavery

• Senator John C. Calhoun

The_________ was born out of the failure of the Democratic and Whig

1848 presidential candidates to take a stand on slavery

• Free-Soil party

_________ would be admitted as a free state.

• California

The New Mexico territory would have no restrictions on ______

• Slavery

The New Mexico-Texas border dispute would be settled in favor

of___________

• New Mexico

The slave trade, but not slavery itself, would be abolished in the___

• District of Columbia

A stronger_______ slave law would be enacted

• Fugitive

Armed Missourians who entered Kansas to vote in favor of slavery.

• Border Ruffians