The Missouri Compromise and Kansas-Nebraska Act were mainly about this issue
What is SLAVERY
100
This abolitionist helped slaves escape
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
The people vote
What is popular sovereignty
100
The "section" of the U.S. relied on free labor and agriculture
What is the South
100
Thinking of a map of North America, what country in the NORTH would slaves in the U.S. runaway to (they would do this because of the Fugitive Slave Act)
What is Canada
200
The ACT concerned the issue of expanding slavery into new territory
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
200
This law or act made it so that it was illegal to help a slave runaway and allowed slaves to be returned to their owners if caught.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
200
This happened to Nat Turner after he led the rebellion
What is executed
200
Name of the line separates free from slave territory
What is the Missouri Compromise Line
200
This is life before the Civil War
What is antebellum
300
This New Yorker led a journey to kill 5 slave owners
Who is John Brown
300
These people came to the United States because of teh potato famine
Who are Irish Immigrants
300
This word best describes native born citizens over immigrants
What is nativism
300
Dred Scott did not win his court case but he was not considered this word.
What is a citizen
300
A band of states that needed cotton for survival
What is the cotton belt
400
This was an anti-immigration party
What is the Know-Nothing Party
400
This compromise was a way to calm the North and the South
What is the Compromise of 1850
400
This was the main reason for population growth in California
What is the Gold Rush
400
This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
400
This document tried to make it so that there would be no slavery on Mexican soil
What is Wilmot Proviso
500
This slave sued for the right to be free
Who is Dred Scott
500
California entered the Union as a free state because of this compromise
What is the Compromise of 1850
500
This describes the fight between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers
What is Bleeding Kansas
500
The U.S. acquired the WESTERN SECTION through this treaty
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
500
These two political parties ran against each other in the election of 1848