Match the Person or Term with the with the Correct

question 45

Multiple Choice

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Compromise of 1850

• A)issued by antislavery congressmen
• B)suggested that the United States buy or seize Cuba
• C)returned runaway slaves to their master
• D)America's mission to settle the West
• E)Texas borderland
• F)sudden increase in California's population
• G)voided the Missouri Compromise
• H)no slavery in land acquired by Mexico
• I)expedition to Central America
• J)opponents to the expansion of slavery
• K)anti-immigrant political party
• L)California's entry into the Union as a free state

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