Compromise or Conflict
What state entered the Union as a free state under the Compromise of 1850?
California
What group of people did the Fugitive Slave Act make it illegal to help?
Runaway slaves
Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas
Who led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry to start a slave rebellion?
John Brown
Which new political party formed in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Republican Party
Which law was passed to satisfy the South and required citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people?
Fugitive Slave Law
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow settlers to do regarding slavery?
Decide by popular sovereignty
What did it mean when the South “seceded”?
They withdrew from the Union.
Who won the presidential election of 1852 by supporting the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act?
Franklin Pierce
What did the Compromise of 1850 say about the slave trade in Washington, D.C.?
It ended the slave trade there.
Why were many southerners angered by Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
It portrayed slavery as evil and inhumane.
What violent conflict broke out as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Bleeding Kansas
Who was inaugurated as president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Who debated Stephen Douglas during the 1858 Illinois Senate race?
Abraham Lincoln
Which side (North or South) was most pleased that California entered as a free state?
North
What effect did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on many northerners?
It turned many against slavery or made them abolitionists.
What did Missourians who crossed into Kansas to vote illegally for slavery become known as?
Border ruffians
What was one reason abolitionists might have criticized John Brown’s actions?
They disagreed with his use of violence.
What doctrine stated that people in a territory could vote to exclude slavery despite the Dred Scott decision?
Freeport Doctrine
Territories from the Mexican Cession would decide on slavery using what principle?
Popular sovereignty
The Fugitive Slave Act gave who the power to arrest alleged runaway slaves in free states?
Federal government officials
What was the purpose of organizing the Kansas and Nebraska territories in the first place?
To build a transcontinental railroad
Put these events in order: Lincoln elected, South secedes, Lincoln inaugurated, Davis inaugurated.
Lincoln elected → South secedes → Davis inaugurated → Lincoln inaugurated