16-1 The Search for Compromise

name used in 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas

• "Bleeding Kansas"
• John Brown
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850

put the issue of slavery to a popular vote

• John Brown
• 36* 30` North Latitude
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850

included the Fugitive Slave Act

• John Brown
• Compromise of 1850
• "Bleeding Kansas"
• 36* 30` North Latitude

the line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states

• "Bleeding Kansas"
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• 36* 30` North Latitude

violent abolitionist

• John Brown
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• "Bleeding Kansas"

The Wilmot Proviso called for

• the election of Martin Van Buren
• banning slavery in any lands the U.S. acquired from Mexico
• California entering the Union as a slave state
• a pro-slavery government in Kansas

What approach did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propose as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?

• Gadsen Purchase
• Texas-Maine Act
• popular sovereignty
• free soil

Which term refers to pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote?

• border patrollers
• border ruffians
• Iowans
• Missourians

In which state did rival pro-slavery and antislavery governments exist at the same time?

• California
• Kansas
• Missouri
• Texas

What is the name for a war between citizens of the same country?

• civil war
• cold war
• inter-country
• undeclared war