Acts/Compromises
This act/compromise dealt with runaway slaves.
Fugitive Slave Act
Define the word "Compromise"
An agreement or settlement of a dispute that is reached by both sides settling for something.
The North had _________ and the South had ____________.
Factories and Farms
This was the name of the network of safe houses that went from South to North.
Underground Railroad
Someone who works to abolish slavery.
This act involved the 36'30' line.
Missouri Compromise
What court did the Dred Scott case go to?
The Supreme Court
What does it mean to "Secede"
To leave a body, group, or federation.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
This was the name of the new transportation system across the US.
Transcontinental Railroad
This act came about when the North and South couldn't agree on a railroad...
Justices
The North was __________ and the South was _____________.
Industrial and Agricultural.
John Brown
What is a Vigilante?
Someone who takes the law/justice into their own hands.
This act/compromise had to do with counting slaves among the population...
The Democratic Republican party split into these two parties
Whig and Democrat
Say three things that the Compromise of 1850 caused to happen.
Texas
California
NM and UT
Slavery outlawed
Fugitive Slave Act
Explain who Frederick Douglas was.
He was a slave who escaped to NYC and joined the Anti-American Slavery Association.
What is a "Doughface?"
A Northern Politician who was soft on slavery.
This act involved adding California as a free state.
Compromise of 1850
Explain why Dred Scott wanted to sue his owner.
The owner wouldn't let him buy his freedom, even though he had enough money and had lived in a free state for years.
This was the name of the man whose printing presses were destroyed.
Elijah Lovejoy
Guides were called ____________.
Safe houses were called ___________.
Runaways were called ___________.
Conductors
Stations
Passengers
What does it mean that the "Sun never sets on the British Empire?"
Britain had so many colonies that the sun was always shining somewhere.