Vocab
A system of secret passages created to help slaves escape to the North.
Underground Railroad
Preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate.
Missouri Compromise
Senator who proposed the Compromise of 1850.
Henry Clay
What two states were being admitted into the U.S. during the Missouri Compromise?
Maine and Missouri
What is the largest organ on the human body?
Skin
Runaway slave
Fugitive
Enforced after the Compromise of 1850. Created stronger fugitive slave laws and made it punishable by law to not help capture a runaway.
Fugitive Slave Law
I supported the idea of popular sovereignty and the Kansas-Nebraska act.
What happened in Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska act was passed?
Border ruffians from Missouri jumped the border and voted pro-slavery legislature in.
Name a mammal that can't jump.
elephant, sloth, hippo, rhino
Sectionalism
Exaggerated loyalty to one particular region of the country.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Senator who proposed splitting the Compromise of 1850 into smaller bills that could be voted on individually.
Stephen A Douglas
What did Henry Clay propose in the Compromise of 1850?
CA enter as a free state and all other states would have the option to vote.
Slavery would be legal in D.C. but the slave trade would be illegal.
Stronger fugitive slave laws.
On a common ladybug, what color are the spots?
Black
Armed pro-slavery group that jumped the border into Kansas to vote.
Border Ruffians
This interconnected system was created after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed to help African Americans flee to the north.
Underground Railroad
I was an abolitionist who believed God sent me to end slavery.
John Brown
What problems did John Brown start in Kansas?
He created a civil war essentially between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups.
What do you call a group of giraffes?
A tower
The people decide.
Popular Sovereignty
5 bills that were split into smaller pieces that could be voted on individually.
Compromise of 1850
The coolest fish in the world.
Swim Shady
Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act not succeed?
A civil war was started shortly after and the act did not last.
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Spongebob Squarepants