USA HISTORY

LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What did Sam Houston say would “convulse the country from Maine to the Rio Grande?”
A
Missouri-Maine Act
B
Kansas-Nebraska Act
C
Texas-Maine Act
D
Missouri Compromise
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Northern Democrats in the House split almost evenly on the vote, revealing deep divisions in the party. Many Northerners became convinced that compromise with the South was no longer possible. Sam Houston, senator from Texas, pre-dicted that the bill “will convulse [upset] the country from Maine to the Rio Grande.”

Detailed explanation-2: -what position di SH take on the dispute between south an north that caused a crisis of the union in 1849-50 before it was compromised in 1850? Sam Houston strongly opposed the kansas-nebraska act of 1854.

Detailed explanation-3: -What did the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act have in common? They both insisted on the removal of slavery in the territories.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas, ” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.

Detailed explanation-5: -Known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the controversial bill raised the possibility that slavery could be extended into territories where it had once been banned. Its passage intensified the bitter debate over slavery in the United States, which would later explode into the Civil War.

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