Unit 14 - A Nation Divided

Which law was not included in the Compromise of 1850?

• California was admitted into the Union as a free state to please the North.

• All slaves must be freed from their owners.

• People in New Mexico and Utah could vote on whether to allow slavery in their states or not.

• The Fugitive Slave Law.

Before the Civil War, The South was:

• Pro-Slavery
• Anti-Slavery
• The Union
• More populated than North

This legislation brought California in as a free state, and also created Utah and New Mexico. The Fugitive Slave Act was included in this legislation, as well:

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fugitive Slave Law

This was a Novel that showed how evil slavery was.  It helped the anti-slavery movement grow stronger

• Of Mice and Men
• Fugitives
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Life of a Slave

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by:

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Dred Scott
• John Brown

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

This slave was taken to the North, but told he could still not be free (even in a free state)

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Frederick Douglas
• Dred Scott

A person who wanted to end slavery

• Secession
• Abolitionist
• Fugitive
• Southerner

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This legislation said that slavery in Kansas and Nebraska would be decided by vote. It lead to lots of violence.

• Kansas Nebraska act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Raid on Harper's Ferry

(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.

• Dred Scott Case
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

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

• secession
• antebellum
• Sojourner Truth
• popular sovereignty