North South Unit Exam Review

Popular Sovereignty

• When people hold the final authority in government - LETTING STATES MAKE DECISIONS

• When a group breaks away - leaving America

• When law makers hold the final authority

To secede is to...

• add on

• abdicate

• break away from

• take over

Harriet Tubman was...

• Part of Lincolns campaign

• A leader of the temperance movement

• A leader in the women's rights movement

• A conductor on the underground Railroad

The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 declared that...

• runaway slaves in the north would be returned to the south

• the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 was unconstitutional.

• the Underground Railroad was legal.

• African Americans in territories admitted after 1850 were free.

Abolitionist

• Someone who wants to reform education

• Someone who wants to reform the prison system

• Someone who wants women to have the right to vote

• Someone who wants to end slavery

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• a method of peaceful protest

• the destruction of Fairy's named Harper

• retaliation against proslavery aggression in Kansas

• attempted slave rebellion

Missouri Compromise

• Allowed popular sovereignty (people decide) to determine the fate of Kansas

• Determined the future of Dred Scott

• Banned Slavery north of the 36'30' parallel

• Was a violent clash between pro slavery and anti slavery forces in Kansas

The balance between free and slave states became a heated debate in Congress because....

• Each side wanted a balance in the senate

• The south had a powerful army

• Congress couldn't control the admission of states

• Congress couldn't keep track

The Underground Railroad helped free enslaved people by:

• providing them with train tickets.

• encouraging slave revolts.

• teaching enslaved people to read and write.

• setting up hiding places and routes to the North.

The following sentence is an example of what?

"For example the Missouri Compromise banned slavery north of the 36'30' parallel line, literally dividing the country in half between free and slave states."

• Evidence

• Analysis

• Topic Sentence

• Conclusion