Compromise of 1850
A new state that was admitted as a free state in the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
What the North's economy increasingly focused on.
What is manufacturing and industry?
Favoring native-born Americans over immigrants.
What is nativism?
1854 law that organized Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This politician proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
Allowing people in a territory to decide whether slavery would be legal.
What is popular sovereignty?
What the South's economy heavily dependent on.
What is agriculture and enslaved labor?
A political party that was known for its nativist and anti-Catholic views.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
Earlier compromise that the Kansas-Nebraska Act effectively repealed.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This author wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Law that strengthened the federal government's enforcement of escaped enslaved people.
What was The Fugitive Slave Act?
A crop that was especially important to the Southern economy.
What is cotton?
A group that immigrated to California in large numbers during and after the Gold Rush.
What are Chinese immigrants?
A period of violence between proslavery and antislavery groups in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This congressman attacked Charles Sumner in the Senate.
Who was Preston Brooks?
Territory that used popular sovereignty under the Compromise of 1850.
What is Utah and New Mexico?
The term that describes loyalty to the interests of a particular region.
What is sectionalism?
An abolitionist that escaped slavery and became a leader in the abolitionist movement.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Supreme Court case that involved Dred Scott.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This political party collapsed because of growing sectional divisions over slavery.
What was the Whig Party?
One major disagreement that the Compromise of 1850 failed to solve.
What was slavery and its expansion?
Two major differences between the North and South.
What is their economies, labor systems, population patterns, and views on slavery differed?
An abolitionist known for helping enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The Dred Scott decision ruled that Congress could not do this in U.S. territories.
What was prohibit slavery?
This new political party opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
What was the Republican Party?