Key Compromises and Provisions on Slavery

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What was the "Compromise of 1820" regarding slavery in Missouri? Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state. All states North of the 36th parallel would be free states and all the South slave states.

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Missouri Compromise

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Attempted to compromise by passing the Fugitive Slave Act, banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and allowing Popular Sovereignty.

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Compromise of 1850

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(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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A Pre-Civil War political doctrine that held that individual states should decide whether to permit slavery or not.

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popular sovereignty

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Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation.

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secession

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote an anti-slavery book called________________ that inspired many people to join the movement to end slavery.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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This law in 1820 provided that the Louisiana Territory north of the Southern border of this state would be a free-state. Options: Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri, California

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Missouri

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What proposition would allow congress to ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the United States as a result of the Mexican American War? Options: Wilmot Proviso, Missouri Compromise, Compromise 1850, Kansas & Nebraska Act

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Wilmot Proviso

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John C. Calhoun

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pro-slavery

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Uncle Tom's Cabin is a work that is classified as: pro-slavery or anti-slavery?

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anti-slavery