Section 1
Slave states in 1819
What is 11?
Candidate that won the Presidential election of 1848 - candidate for the Free- Soilers
Who is Zachary Taylor?
Someone who wants slavery banned everywhere
What is an abolitionist?
Territory that applied for statehood in 1850.
What is California?
To remove oneself from something
What is secede?
Free states in 1819
What is 11?
Line that divided the United States into slave and free slaves.
What is the line of 36 30' N?
Party whose main goal was to keep slavery out of the Western territories.
What is Free-Soil Party
The South wanted to _____.
secede
Another name for runaway slaves
What is fugitive?
If Missouri was added to the Union as a slave or free state, the imbalance would effect this house of Congress.
What is the Senate?
Main goal of the Free- Soil Party.
What is keeping slavery out of the West?
Right of the people to create their government and decide for themselves to allow slavery or not.
What is popular sovereignty?
Slaves in the south were considered this.
What is property?
War between the same country
What is civil war?
The Missouri Compromise effected only this land.
What is Louisiana Purchase?
North of the line 36 30' N slavery was...
What is illegal?
Missouri would be admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Calhoun wanted fugitive slaves to be...
What is returned to their owners?
A compromise with five parts to settle disputes between North and South
Compromise of 1850
Two parties in the North that opposed slavery.
What are Whigs and Democrats?
This state was allowed to have slavery but was above the line 36 30' N
Missouri
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves