Tensions Over Slavery

What law compelled the North to return runaway slaves back to the South?

• Fugitive Dog Acts
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Abolition Act of 1850
• I refuse to answer this question based on the fact I have not studied!

Who was known as the Great Compromiser?

• John C Calhoun
• Daniel Webster
• Henry Clay
• George Washington

Which of the following terms means to withdraw?

• secede
• fugitive
• propaganda
• blockade

During the debate over the spread of slavery into new territories, some of the leaders promoted the idea that political power belongs to the people. They called it

• the Dred Scott Decision
• the Missouri Compromise
• Popular Sovereignty
• the Compromise of 1850

The admission of what state as a free state led to the Compromise of 1850?

• Missouri
• Oregon
• Texas
• California

Wrote the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin .

• John Brown
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Stephen Douglas
• Roger B Taney

Antislavery settler from Connecticut who led attacks on proslavery settlers in Kansas.

• John Brown

• Douglas Brown

• Stephen Douglas

• Roger B Taney

Many southerners considered Uncle Tom's Cabin to be...

• misleading propaganda
• an accurate description of slavery
• an easier read than the Bible.
• a how-to manual for the southern cause.

Which of the following threatened the balance between free and slave states?

• The Missouri Compromise
• The Compromise of 1850
• The territory gained from the Mexican - American War
• The Kansas - Nebraska Acts

The South feared that the North would get more votes in Congress and would try to -

• Ban agricultural farming
• Force the South into the Union
• Abolish slavery
• Spread Industry to the South