Which of the following was not proposed in 1850 to the U.S. Senate as a compromise between proslavery and antislavery factions?

Admission to the United States of California as a free state

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Continuation of slavery in the District of Columbia

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Passage of tougher fugitive slave legislation

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Purchase of its claim to New Mexico Territory from Texas

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Division of Texas into two new territories: New Mexico and Utah

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The correct option is E Division of Texas into two new territories: New Mexico and Utah
Division of Texas into two new territories: New Mexico and Utah.

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Q. "Provided that, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory."

Which of the following men is associated with the above quotation?

I. "The Kansas-Nebraska Act authorizes the further extension of slavery and we have, do now, and will continue to protest most emphatically against slavery." (1854)

II. "The territories were the common property of the several states. As a joint agent of the states, Congress has no power to deny the citizens of any state the right to take their property into a territory Therefore slavery is legal in the territories. If Wilmot carries, woe, woe I say to the union." (1850)

III. "We beg the slave owners to pause before they proceed further to disturb the peace we had hoped the Compromise of 1850 would have made perpetual." (1854)

Which of the above statement(s) would John C. Calhoun have supported?

Q. The acquisition of territory from Mexico as a result of the Mexican War was most significant in that it ________.

Q. The acquisition of territory from Mexico as a result of the Mexican War was of utmost importance because it _________.

Q. "We are opposed to the extension of slavery because it diminishes the productive powers of its population. It is an obstacle to compact settlements and to every general system of public institution. If slavery goes into the territories the free labor of all the states will not. If the free labor of all the states goes there, the slave labor of the southern states will not, and in a few years the country will teem with an active and energetic population."

-Editorial, New York Evening Post, 1847

Why will free labor not go where there is slavery, according to the above excerpt?

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Which of the following was not proposed in 1850 to the U.S. Senate as a compromise between proslavery and antislavery factions?

The correct option is E Division of Texas into two new territories: New Mexico and UtahDivision of Texas into two new territories: New Mexico and Utah.

The correct option is E Division of Texas into two new territories: New Mexico and Utah
Division of Texas into two new territories: New Mexico and Utah.