Henry Clay urged Congress to let California enter the Union as this kind of state.
What is a free state?
100
This happens when people favor the interest of one region over the rest of the country.
What is sectionalism?
100
Antislavery Northerners thought that the Kansas-Nebraska Act was this.
What is a plot to turn the free territory into a "dreary region" inhabited by masters and slaves?
100
John C. Breckinridge was the candidate from the south who strongly supported this.
What is keeping slavery strong and lasting?
200
The penalty for helping a runaway slave.
What is 6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine?
200
This would decide the status of slavery for New Mexico.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
In August, 1848 Buffalo, New York formed this party that supported the Wilmot Proviso, and chose Martin Van Buren as their candidate.
What is the Free Soil Party?
200
This plan divides the Louisiana Purchase into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
These were former Whigs formed a new political party.
What is the Constitutional Union-Party?
300
The country slaves fled to, because they weren't safe in America anymore, due to new laws.
What is Canada?
300
Henry Clay called for the end of slave trade, but not this more important problem.
What is slavery?
300
Representative David Wilmot proposed this plan that stated that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory, but then the plan dies in Congress.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
These were the people who thought the Kansas-Nebraska Act was a Southern plot to turn free territory into slave territory.
Who are Antislavery Northerners?
300
This man was the Constitutional Union Party's presidential candidate.
Who is John Bell?
400
The ransom someone would receive for returning a fugitive slave to its slave owner.
What is $10?
400
Clay called for this law (that punished people who helped runaway slaves) to be new and more effective.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
400
The victory in the Mexican War in 1848 renewed the bitter debate over this topic.
What is the expansion of slavery?
400
This is why Southerners in Congress didn't support Douglas's railroad plan.
What is a thought that this would ruin their plans to make a railroad running through New Orleans, New Mexico, and stopping in Southern California?
400
This man was runner-up in the election.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
500
In ten years after Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, 343 slave cases came under the commissioner's review and this many were declared free.
What is 11?
500
Calhoun argued that making this state free would upset the balance, but he was too weak to read his own speech.
What is California?
500
California being granted as a free state upset this.
What is the balance of slave states and free states?
500
These were what citizens attended all across the North after the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What are protest meetings?
500
This man won the election with 12 electoral votes.