Famous People
The Compromise of 1850
Famous Events
Key Issues
Reform in America
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The President of the United States elected in 1860?
What is Abraham Lincoln?
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He stepped forward with a plan to resolve the issues of slavery. His nickname was "The Great Compromiser".
Who is Henry Clay?
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The Supreme Court case that recognized slavery in the United States.
What is Dred Scott v Sandford?
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The practice in the South of forced labor of African Americans.
What is Slavery?
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The leader of the Union after the 1860 election.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
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The Chief Justice that delcared Dred Scott NOT a free man.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
200
The state that was admitted as a free state in the Compromise.
What is California?
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The election where Lincoln was elected president which caused the Southern states seceded from the Union
What is Election of 1860?
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The view the Northerners had about Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.
What is they were outraged. began to see slavery as a human and moral problem.
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The president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jeffereson Davis?
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The Southerner who provided the Southern position on slavery in the territories?
Who is John C. Calhoun?
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The two ways the Compromise pleased the South.
What is the territories won by the Mexican-American War would be decided by popular sovereignty and the Fugitive Slave Act?
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The law where California became a free state and a strict federal fugitive slave law adopted.
What is Compromise of 1850?
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The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
300
The African American who escaped from slavery and became a leader of the abolitionist movement
What is Fredrick Douglas?
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The Massachusetts senator who supported Clay's proposal to stop seperating the nation.
What is Daniel Webster?
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The Act that undid The Compromise of 1850.
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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This law organized Kansas and Nebraska as territories and repealed the line outlawing slavery in the Louisiana Purchase.
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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The right that people were able to vote on the issues.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
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An antislavery settler who started a revolt to support the enslaved African Americans.
Who is John Brown?
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The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin which presented a negative view of slavery
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
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The Compromise banned slave trade in this area.
What is the nation's capital, Washington DC?
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The failed amendment in 1846 to prohibit slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.
What is Wilmot Proviso?
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The number of free and slave states after the Mexican-American War.
What is 15 each?
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Stephen Douglas
Who is the Senator who proposed the split between Kansas and Nebraska?
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