Civics-Acts-MyTest-03

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The issue of slavery in the territories acquired from the Mexican-American War created a major political crisis. California's request to be admitted as a free state in 1849 threatened to destroy the delicate balance of power between free and slave states in the Senate. This led to threats of secession from the Southern states. In response, Congress passed the ______________, which abolished the slave trade but not slavery itself in Washington, D.C. It also enacted a stricter Fugitive Slave Act that required citizens to help capture escaped slaves and denied accused dissenters the right to a trial.

• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Homestead Act (1862)
• 13th Amendment (1865)