Vocabulary
fruits or vegetables
What is produce?
uncomfortable feelings toward another person or group
What is tension?
Name one person that helped make the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, or Henry Clay?
Truth, Douglass, and Tubman worked on this secret network to free slaves.
What is the Underground Railroad?
to overstate the truth
What is exaggerrate?
a system that is linked together in some way
What is a network?
Allowed Texas to sell its claim on what state for 10 million dollars.
What is New Mexico?
Person responsible for the Kansas Nebraska Act known as "The Little Giant."
Who is Stephen Douglas?
a person who helped free slaves by using the Underground railroad
What is conductor?
a law created to help slave owners recapture their runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
California would become a _____________ state.
What is a free state?
Became President in 1853 was a democrat from the North but he was not against slavery.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
one who is fleeing from danger or being kept against one's will
What is fugitive?
the group of people that campaigned against slavery
Who were the abolitionists?
Slave trade was abolished here.
What is the District of Columbia?
Made a land purchase that allowed the US to be able to build a railroad to southern California and created our permanent southwest border between US and Mexico.
Who is James Gadsden?
The power of the people to decide something especially whether to become a free or slave state
What is popular sovereignty?
the political party that some Free Soilers, Whigs, and Democrats formed in 1854 because the existing parties didn't take a clear stand on slavery
What is the Republican Party?
President Taylor died in office. This person took his place and favored the Compromise.
Who is Millard Fillmore?
An abolitionist who used newspapers to sway opinion about slavery in the United States.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?