Missouri Compromise
What year was the Missouri Compromise put into effect?
1820
Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay.
When did the Fugitive Slave Act go into effect?
1850.
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is Sectionalism?
Differences in interests of different parts of the country.
What was rising in the Nation before Henry Clay proposed the Compromise of 1850?
Conflict in Congress.
By law, what did the people in Northern States have to do under the Fugitive Slave Act?
People of the Northern States had to capture and report any enslaved person who had escaped from the South.
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin about?
It was a depiction of how inhumane and cruel the institution of slavery was in the South.
What are the three main things that happened in the Missouri Compromise?
1. Missouri enters the Union as a Slave State.
2. Maine enters the Union as a Free State.
3. The 36° N latitude line is drawn, every state entering the Union that is north of the line will be “Free” and every state south will be “Slave”
How did this affect Northern States? (3 answers)
1. Admitted California as a Free state.
2. Banning the Slave trade within Washington D.C.
3. Forced to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
What are the three main ideas behind the Fugitive Slave Act?
Fugitives could not testify on their own behalf, nor were they permitted a trial by jury.
Heavy penalties were imposed upon federal marshals who refused to enforce the law.
Penalties were also imposed on individuals who helped enslaved people to escape.
Who had this to say about Harriet Beecher Stowe?
"The little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."
Abraham Lincoln.
How was sectionalism starting to appear the North? (4 answers)
1. Economy based on Industry (factories).
2. Children and Immigrants made up a lot of the workforce in the factories.
3. Was against the Fugitive Slave Law.
4. Urbanization and Railroads.
What are the four points that Henry Clay was trying to push to help settle the dispute in Congress?
1. California is admitted into the union as a Free State.
2. Utah and New Mexico Territory will have Popular Sovereignty to decide if they will enter the Union with the Institution of Slavery.
3. Washington D.C bans the slave trade within the city.
4. The Fugitive Slave Act becomes more powerful.
What place in North America was the only place runaway enslaved people could run to to escape the Fugitive Slave Act?
Canada, as it did not have the institution of Slavery within it's country.
What did Uncle Tom's Cabin do?
It opened the people of the North's eyes to the inhumane nature of the institution of slavery and humanized the enslaved people involved.
How was sectionalism starting to appear in the South? (4 answers)
1. Economy based on Agriculture.
2. Enslaved people made up the workforce on the plantations in the South.
3. For the Fugitive Slave Law.
4. Rural and not a lot of Railroads.
How did this affect Southern States? (3 answers)
1. Strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.
2. Expansion of the institution of slavery into New Mexico and Utah via popular sovereignty.
3. Power imbalance in Congress when California is admitted into the union as a free State.
Who said that the only way to stop the Fugitive Slave Act from happening was for runaway enslaved people to enact violence against the Slave Catchers?
Frederick Douglass.
True or False: Uncle Tom's Cabin was a very important piece of literature that helped shape the North's views on the institution of slavery.
True.