Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Antislavery Literature
Breaking With The Union
100
September
What month in 1850 did the Compromise became a law?
100
made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
100
it divide the rest of the louisiana purchase into two territories.
What does the act do?
100
Abolitionists.
Who used stories to help antislavery?
100
Lincoln
Who was president in this time?
200
California
What state entered the union as a free state?
200
slave holders and their agents
Who can take the suspected fugitive slaves before U.S. commissioners?
200
Kansas and Nebraska.
What are the two territories that the Louisiana Purchase is divided into?
200
1840.
When did this become popular?
200
That Lincoln will abolish slavery in the South.
What did the South fear?
300
the rest of the Mexican Cession
What was divided into two territories?
300
arrest runaway slaves
What can officials from areas where slavery is illegal do because of the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
Stephen Douglas.
Who created the act?
300
The narratives of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.
What were the best known narratives?
300
He said he would not change slavery in the South, but slavery had to end at some point in the future.
What did Lincoln insist?
400
Utah and New Mexico
What were the two territories that the Mexican Cession was divided into?
400
through documents or the testimony of white witnesses.
How did slave owners try to prove ownership?
400
Popular sovereignty.
What would decide the question of slavery?
400
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
What was one of the most powerful influences of all of the literature?
400
The Act of formally withdrawing from the Union.
What is secession?
500
popular sovereignty
In the new territories, who will decide the status of slavery?
500
A fine of one thousand dollars and six months in jail.
What is the consequence of helping runaway slaves?
500
The 36, 30 boundary for slave states.
What did the plan remove?
500
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
500
The question of secession.
What was the convention in Charleston about?
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