VOCAB Chapter 14.1-2

As the middle of the 19th century approached, slavery had become too _________ for political leaders to ignore any longer.

• scorn

• garrison

• provoked

• divisive

• unifying

The Fugitive Slave Act _____________ bitter anger in the northern states.

• scorned

• appeased

• provoked

• divisived

a political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories.

• the Free-Soil Party

• the Democratic Party

• the Whigs

• the Freemen Party

• the Unionist Party

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.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• the 1854 Ostend Manifesto

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the Crittenden Plan

a law enforcement officer who works for the United States government.

• Border Ruffians

• Troopers

• Federal Marshals

• Secret Service

Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• 1854 Ostend Manifesto

"Border ruffians" were...

• pro-slavery forces from Missouri that entered Kansas to vote for slavery in elections.

• anti-slavery citizens that settled in Kansas to vote against slavery in elections.

As part of the "Compromise of 1850" and the "Kansas-Nebraska Act", Stephen A. Douglas supported the idea that people in each territory should decide the issue of slavery in individual states. This approach to making laws is called _________________________.

• Dissent

• Seceding

• Popular sovereignty

• Segregation

• Divisive

Bans slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30'N line of latitude.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• 1854 Ostend Manifesto

Repealed the Missouri Compromise Line paving the way for "popular sovereignty" in ALL new territories

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• 1854 Ostend Manifesto