Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Bleeding Kansas Review

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction

• It provided an end to the trade of enslaved people in the South

• It included a law requiring the return of escaped enslaved people

• It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded

Which two people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery?

• Daniel Webster and Henry Clay

• James Polk and John Quincy Adams

• Nat Turner and John Brown

• Charles Sumner and Stephen A. Douglas

All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed except

• many enslaved people moved to Canada

• Northerners refused to obey the law

• People who caught fugitives from slavery were driven back to the South

• plantation owners did not want returned enslaved people

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• It caused enslaved people to revolt in Kentucky​​​​

• It turned many more people against slavery

• Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished

• The South became more resolved to secede from the Union

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

• It changed the borders of Missouri

• It required that all of Missouri be free

• It allowed slavery in new Northern territories

• It established new interstate trade rules

Which of these was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• It led to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas

• It settled the slavery issue in Nebraska

• It calmed the country's dispute over slavery

• It required that the new territories would be free states

Events & Acts: an agreement made in order to admit California as a free state: allowed New Mexico & Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C., and created a stronger fugitive slave law

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Events & Acts: required that all escaped slaves, when captured, be returned to the owner

• Wilmot Proviso

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Events & Acts: novel published in 1852, made millions of people in the North aware of the cruelties of slavery

• Wilmot Proviso

• John Brown's Raid

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Gag Rule

Events & Acts: an act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas & Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to detrmine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso