PART A: 
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

DIRECTIONS: Read each document and answer the questions that follow the document on the Answer Sheet.

Document 1 Compromise of 1850

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:

Until 1850, there were equal numbers of slave and free states in the United States. The Compromise of 1850 introduced into Congress by Henry Clay was designed to settle the slavery question arising from the new western lands acquired after the Mexican War. The Compromise gave some satisfaction to both the North and the South. The bill passed after it was divided into several parts: California enters the Union as a free state; Utah and New Mexico Territories are opened to slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty (i.e., territorial voters decide the issue); and the slave trade (but not slavery) is abolished in Washington D.C. It also included a strict fugitive slave law that required Northerners to return escaped slaves to their owners.

Source: Tindall's A Narrative History Gallery
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ushist/timeline/comp1850.htm

1. How were future new states to decide if they entered the Union as a free or slave state?

2.  What was the Fugitive Slave Law?

3.  How many slave states are there in 1850?

4.  How many free states are there in 1850?

5.  What evidence is there on the map to show a past compromise?