Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 consisted of five separate ______ passed by Congress.
What are laws?
This method was used in the Mexican Cession to decide slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Political parties avoided strong positions on slavery because of this reason.
What is wanting support from both North and South?
This law created Kansas and Nebraska and allowed popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
By 1848, this was the number of free and slave states.
What is 15 free and 15 slave?
This law allowed officials to arrest suspected runaway slaves without a warrant.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Many African Americans fled to this country to avoid capture under the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is Canada?
This election winner defeated Lewis Cass and Martin Van Buren in 1848.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed this earlier compromise.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
California wanted to enter the Union as this type of state.
What is a free state?
Many Northerners opposed the Fugitive Slave Act because it allowed this to happen.
What is being deprived of freedom without due process?
This political party believed western lands should be “_____ soil.”
What is free soil?
Many Southerners responded to Uncle Tom's Cabin by calling it this.
What is propaganda?
Northerners were angry about the Kansas-Nebraska Act because it did this.
What is reopening the slavery debate and allowing expansion/ repealed the Missouri Compromise?
California entering the Union created a crisis because it would do this.
What is upset the balance in the Senate?
This right was denied to suspected fugitives under the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the right to a jury trial?
This proposal aimed to ban slavery in new territories gained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This effect was what Uncle Tom's Cabin had in the North.
What is changing public opinion about slavery?
This term describes the violent conflict over slavery in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This statesman supported compromise to preserve the Union.
Who is Daniel Webster?
This president supported and signed the Compromise of 1850 into law after Zachary Taylor died.
Who was Millard Fillmore?
The South viewed the Wilmot Proviso as this.
What is a threat to their system/way of life?
This author wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This abolitionist led a violent attack killing five proslavery men at Pottawatomie Creek.
Who is John Brown?
John C. Calhoun warned the South might do this if their rights were not respected.
What is secede?