Chapter 20 - sections 5-6

Which 2 new territories could decide their slave status?

• Utah and New Mexico

• New Mexico and California

• Utah and Nevada

• California and Nevada

California would be admitted as a ____________ state

• free

• slave

Slave trading was banned here

• Virginia

• Washington, DC

• Maryland

• Mississippi

The Fugitive Slave Act required (check all that apply)

• ordinary citizens to assist with capturing runaway slaves

• officials in all state and territories to assist in returning runaway slaves

• free African Americans to purchase special documents

• captured runaway slaves to serve 2 years in prison

___________ suggested the Compromise of 1850.

• The Northern states

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• The Southern states

What law inspired Stowe to write the book?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Dawes Act
• Lincoln-Douglas Act

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What was the only book more widely read than Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1861?

• The Almanac
• The Bible
• Huck Finn
• Tom Sawyer

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beacher Stowe

• Robert E Lee

• Fredrick Douglas

An abolitionist is 

• a person who put the welfare of the country above their region
• a person in favor of slavery
• a person who wanted to end slavery
  
• a person who wanted to end the spread of slavery

What did Uncle Tom’s Cabin convince the North of?

• That it was ok to own a slave

• That you shouldn’t have more than two slaves

• That Uncle Tom had a nice cabin

• That slavery was wrong