Key Events and Figures in U.S. History

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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Which state entered the Union as a free state in 1850 under the Compromise of 1850?

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California

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What did the Missouri Compromise use to determine where slavery was allowed?

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The 36°30N latitude line

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What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Law?

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To capture escaped enslaved people in the North

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Who led the attack on Harper’s Ferry?

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John Brown

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What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do to increase tension between the North and South?

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It repealed the Missouri Compromise

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What were Slave Codes designed to do?

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Forbid enslaved people to gather without an owner and made it illegal to read and write