Fast & Curious Chapter 15 Vocabulary

preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate.

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Anyone who helped a fugitive could be fined or imprisoned.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

Emancipation Proclamation

• A treaty signed by European powers to end the American Civil War
• A speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Gettysburg Address
• An executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War, declaring all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory to be set free.
• A military strategy used by the Union Army to defeat the Confederacy

Compromise of 1850

• The Compromise of 1850 was a treaty between the United States and Mexico
• The Compromise of 1850 was focused on women's suffrage
• The Compromise of 1850 was signed by Abraham Lincoln
• The Compromise of 1850 aimed to address the issue of slavery in newly acquired territories and maintain a balance between slave and free states.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1860 and abolished slavery in the territories.
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a result of the Civil War.
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854 and allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery.
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a compromise between the North and South regarding the expansion of slavery.

Dred Scott v Sandford

• African Americans were granted full citizenship rights
• The case established the principle of 'separate but equal'
• The decision was unanimous among the Supreme Court justices
• African Americans were not considered citizens and could not sue in federal court.

What was the name of the compromise that created the imaginary line on the map that separated slavery in the North and South?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

What did the Missouri Compromise primarily deal with?

• The right to bear arms

• The regulation of tariffs

• The balance of free and slave states

• The right to vote

Which deal said that Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine would join as a free state.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was one effect of the Missouri Compromise on the United States?

• It made Missouri a free state

• It temporarily eased tensions between the North and South

• It led to the immediate abolition of slavery

• It caused the Nullification Crisis