Congress did not want to confront this question. So, in 1836, Congress voted to table—or set aside indefinitely—all antislavery petitions. Outraged abolitionists called this action the _________

White Southerners deeply resented the abolitionists’ efforts to free enslaved people. After ________________ rebellion against enslavement in 1831, resentment turned to fear.

The ___________ stated that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist” in any part of the land that might be gotten from Mexico.

Then, late in 1849, __________ applied for admission to the Union as a free state.

With Congress deadlocked over California’s request for statehood. Once again, Southerners spoke openly of withdrawing from the Union. And once again, angry Northerners denounced the enslavement of Black people. They felt slavery was a crime against humanity.

The Compromise of 1850: It began by admitting California to the Union as a free state. This would please the North. Meanwhile, it allowed the ________ and ______ territories to decide whether to allow slavery. This would please the South. (Pick 2)

In addition, Clay's Compromise of 1850 ended the selling and purchasing of enslaved people in ___________

Finally, Clay's Compromise of 1850 called for passage of a strong law targeting fugitives (run aways) from slavery.

Congress debated the Compromise of 1850 for _____ months.

Select 4 of the terms of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 that Congress adopted.

Under the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850, a person arrested as a runaway had almost no legal rights.

The Fugitive Slave Act also said that any person who helped a person escaping enslavement could be jailed. Even if someone refused to aid men hired to track down fugitives from slavery, they could be jailed. These threats were very successful and most everyone in the North followed the law.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "__________" helped make the horrors of enslavement clear to Northerners.

The Ostend Manifesto was a message sent to the secretary of state by three American diplomats who were meeting in Ostend, Belgium. President Franklin Pierce, who had taken office in 1853, had been trying to purchase ______ from Spain, but Spain had refused the offer. Northerners charged that Pierce's administration wanted to buy _______ in order to add another state with slavery to the Union.

Senator Steven Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act, was passed in 1854 and created two new territories: Kansas and Nebraska. It also abolished the Missouri Compromise by leaving it up to the settlers themselves to vote on whether to permit enslavement in the two territories. Douglas was motivated because____________

The struggle over enslavement soon turned violent. On May 21, 1856, proslavery settlers and so-called "border ruffians" from Missouri invaded_______,_______, the home of this antislavery government.