Ch. 14 Section 1 & 2

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
• It added California as a slave state

What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?

• The underground railroad was ended
• Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
• Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
• Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves

The north was ________ slavery

• For
• Against
• Unsure
• About

All of these were reason the Fugitive Slave Law failed except.

• Many slaves moved to Canada.
• Northerners refused to obey the law.
• Hounded slave catchers returned to the South.
• Plantation owners did not want returned slaves.

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• It created a slave revolt in Kentucky.
• It turned many more people against slavery.
• Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished.
• The Fugitive slave law was cancelled.

How did the Kansas- Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

• It changed the borders of Missouri
• It required that all Missouri be free.
• It allowed slavery in Kansas and Nebraska Territories 
• It established new interstate trade rules.

The term means that people in the state would VOTE to make decisions about being a free state or a slave state.

• independent choice
• popular sovereignty
• popular election

This is when each side gets a little of what each wants;  they meet in the middle.

• sectionalism
• nullification
• compromise
• region

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama