Chapter 10 Vocabulary Quiz

Match the term 'Wilmot Proviso' with the correct definition or description.

• Belief that local voters should decide on slavery in territories

• Law requiring return of runaway slaves, denying accused a trial

• Secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

• Best-known 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad

• Proposed ban on slavery in territory from the Mexican War

Match the term 'Popular Sovereignty' with the correct definition or description.

• Proposed ban on slavery in territory from the Mexican War

• Best-known 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad

• Law requiring return of runaway slaves, denying accused a trial

• Secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

• Belief that local voters should decide on slavery in territories

Match the term 'Compromise of 1850' with the correct definition or description.

• Proposed ban on slavery in territory from the Mexican War

• Series of resolutions to ease tensions over slavery

• Best-known 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad

• Secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

• Law requiring return of runaway slaves, denying accused a trial

Match the term 'Fugitive Slave Act' with the correct definition or description.

• Belief that local voters should decide on slavery in territories

• Proposed ban on slavery in territory from the Mexican War

• Law requiring return of runaway slaves, denying accused a trial

• Best-known 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad

• Secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

Match the term 'Harriet Tubman' with the correct definition or description.

• Best-known 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad

• Secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

• Proposed ban on slavery in territory from the Mexican War

• Law requiring return of runaway slaves, denying accused a trial

• Belief that local voters should decide on slavery in territories

Match the term 'Underground Railroad' with the correct definition or description.

• Secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

• Law requiring return of runaway slaves, denying accused a trial

• Proposed ban on slavery in territory from the Mexican War

• Best-known 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad

• Belief that local voters should decide on slavery in territories

Match the term 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin' with the correct definition or description.

• Book that portrayed slavery as a moral issue, not just political

• Law requiring return of runaway slaves, denying accused a trial

• Proposed ban on slavery in territory from the Mexican War

• Secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

• Best-known 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad

Match the term 'Kansas-Nebraska Act' with the correct definition or description.

• Law requiring return of runaway slaves, denying accused a trial

• Proposed ban on slavery in territory from the Mexican War

• Secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

• Bill allowing voters in KS and NE to decide on slavery

• Best-known 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad

Match the term 'Bleeding Kansas' with the correct definition or description.

• Secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

• Law requiring return of runaway slaves, denying accused a trial

• Violence between pro- and antislavery groups in Kansas

• Best-known 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad

• Proposed ban on slavery in territory from the Mexican War

Match the term 'John Brown' with the correct definition or description.

• Radical abolitionist behind the Pottawatomie Massacre

• Secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

• Law requiring return of runaway slaves, denying accused a trial

• Proposed ban on slavery in territory from the Mexican War

• Best-known 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad