Period 5: Compromise of 1850

Question 1

Gag Rule

Answer 1

Forbid talking about slavery in the house

Question 2

Zachary Taylor

Answer 2

• Elected president in 1848
• Died in 1850, replaced by Millard Fillmore
• Disliked by southerners for antislavery views

Question 3

Henry Clay

Answer 3

• The Great Compromiser
• Senator at time of Compromise
• An abolitionist

Question 4

Stephen Douglas

Answer 4

• In the senate
• Developed theory of popular sovereignty, states should choose whether they were slave states or not

Question 5

California

Answer 5

• Gold Rush caused a large amount of people to go to CA
• Was lawless with no government
• Became a free state as part of the compromise, messing up the balance of free and slave states