Fugitive Slave Act
The place where most former slaves had to flee in order to escape the Fugitive Slave Act.
Where is Canada?
The name given to the violent interaction between abolitionists and slave owners when determining the fate of Kansas and Nebraska.
What was Bloody Kansas?
This is the year that Dred Scott v. Sandford was tried in the Supreme Court.
What is 1857?
This Mexican American War lasted for this long?
What is two years?
This region of Colonies are characterized by a long growing season, and an economy based on agriculture.
What are the Southern Colonies?
The year the new Fugitive Slave Act was passed in the United States.
What is 1850
The Kansas Nebraska Act was a repeal of what Compromise?
What was the Compromise of 1820
Dred Scott believed himself to be free because of this.
He lived as a free man for 9 years after his owner died.
This treaty ended the Mexican American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This Constitutional compromise resulted in tariffs on imports, but not on exports.
What is the Commerce Compromise?
The name of the novel written in response to the Fugitive Slave Act that empowered the abolitionist movement.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This is the year the Kansas Nebraska Act was created.
What is 1854?
This is what happened to Dred Scott personally after the trial.
What is Abolitionists bought his freedom?
This is the idea that God intends for the people of the United States to move west to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These are rights that humans are supposedly born with - like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - that should not be taken away by the government.
What are natural rights?
The Fugitive Slave Act was part of which Compromise between free and slave states?
What is the Compromise of 1850
The policy that enables the people to vote on the status of their state/territory
What is popular sovereignty?
The Supreme Court’s final ruling in the Dred Scott case declared this.
What is African Americans are not citizens and they do not have rights.
This is how much land Mexico was required to give the US after the war.
What is ⅓ of its territory?
This is a policy based on the belief that in order to build economic strength, a country must export more than it imports.
What is mercantilism?
The name of George Washington’s former slave who escaped and refused to return.
Who is Oney Judge?
The Compromise of 1820 determined whether a state would be free or have slaves based on this latitude line.
What is 36 degrees 30’?
This Compromise, created during the writing of the Constitution, was later made unconstitutional by the Dred Scott case.
What is the ⅗ Compromise?
This person sent troops to the border of Mexico to start an altercation.
Who is President Polk?
Washington warned that the United States should do this if its European Allies needed help in future wars.
What is stay neutral?