Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act
Antislavery Literature
The Kansas Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
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Henry Clay
Who was the senator nicknamed "The Great Compromiser" that helped settle the Missouri Crisis?
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Made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves.
What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?
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Use the stories of fugitive slaves.
What did the North do to help their cause?
100
Stephen Douglas
Who supported building a railroad to the Pacific?
100
Cross the border of Missouri and voted in Kansas then returned home.
What did thousands of men do to ensure pro-slavery victory?
200
Five
How many parts did Clay's proposal have?
200
Arrest runaways in the areas where slavery is illegal.
What did the act let officials do?
200
Frederick Douglas and Sojourner Truth.
Who were the best known narratives?
200
The Southerners
Who did not support Douglas's plan
200
The new territorial legislature.
Who passed a law that made it a crime to question anyone's right to hold slaves?
300
Because it would destroy the balance.
Why did John C. Calhoun not want California to enter as a free state?
300
6 months in jail and $1000 fine.
What was the punishment for helping a run away slave?
300
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What literary work had the most powerful influence on people?
300
It would divide the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories(Kansas and Nebraska)
What would the Kansas Nebraska Act do?
300
They had two governments and an angry population divided into two armed camps.
What happened in early Kansas of early 1856?
400
Daniel Webster
Who was in favor of Clay's plan?
400
343 fugitive slave cases came under the commissioner's review in the North.
What happened in the 10 years congress passed this law?
400
The Fugitive Slave Act angered her so she wrote a book to show the Northerners what slavery was really like.
What was the reason Harriet Beecher Stowe decide to write her book?
400
The antislavery Northerners
Which people were outraged at this proposal?
400
John Brown
Who led a group of seven men and they became known as the Pottawatomie Massacre?
500
1. California is a free state 2. Mexican Cession divided into 2 territories 3. Texas agreed to give up it's land 4. Compromise outlawed slave trade
What did the Compromise of 1850 accomplish?
500
Take suspected fugitive slave and prove ownership.
Under the new law what were slaveholders and their agents allowed to do?
500
Published in 1852 and 2 million copies were sold.
When was Uncle Tom's Cabin published and how many copies were sold?
500
No
Will congress approve the construction for the railroad?
500
Bleeding Kansas
What were the front page stories in the countries newspapers on Kansas called?
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