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Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act
Anti-Slavery Literature
The Dred Scott Decision
The Election of 1860
100
The Compromise of 1850 allowed for this to become a state.
What is California?
100
The Fugitive Slave Act made it a federal crime to do this.
What are runaway slaves?
100
This popular book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to promote anti-slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
This person was the slave of an army surgeon from St. Louis, Missouri.
Who is Dred Scott?
100
This party had 2 candidates.
What is the Democratic Party?
200
The Mexican Cession was divided into this many territories.
What is two?
200
This act made it possible for officials arrest runaway slaves in these states.
What are states where slavery is illegal?
200
This person was a slave in New York and who wrote a narrative whose central character was a woman.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
200
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court said that African-Americans "had no __________ which a white man was bound to respect."
What are rights?
200
This candidate was part of the Democratic party and was from Kentucky.
Who is John C. Breckinridge?
300
These were the two territories that came from the Mexican Cession.
What is Utah and New Mexico?
300
Under this act, slaveholders could take suspected fugitive slaves and try to prove this.
What is ownership?
300
Anthony Burns was a __________ in the north and helped the slaves' cause.
What is an abolitionist?
300
This person warned about the Supreme Court's future rulings.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
This person won the election.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
In exchange for giving up land claims to New Mexico, the federal government gave Texas this.
What is financial help?
400
Northerners did not like this act because it denied slaves this, which was supposed to be allowed as stated in the Constitution.
What is the right to trial by jury?
400
Uncle Tom's cabin sold this many copies.
What is 2 million?
400
Taney said that living on _____________ did not make Scott a free man.
What is free soil?
400
Finish the list. The four candidates were: Breckinridge, Lincoln, Douglas, and ____________.
Who is Bell (John)?
500
This is where, because of the Compromise of 1850, slave trade was outlawed.
What is the nation's capital?
500
People who helped slaves were sentenced to this.
What is six months in jail and $1,000?
500
Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in ______.
When was 1852?
500
This was the Supreme Court Chief Justice that judged Dred Scott's case.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
500
This is where the Republicans held their convention.
Where is Chicago?