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Ch.15 Vocab
Hajin Seo S1200120 Ch.15 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| He proposed a bill to outlaw slavery in any territory the United States might acquire from the War with Mexico. | Wilmot Proviso |
| S series of Congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states. | Compromise of 1850 |
| A novel that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| The 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. | Fugitive Slave Act |
| A system where the residents vote to decide an issue. | popular sovereignty |
| An 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery. | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| He succeeded, and the plan, now known as the Compromise of 1850. | Stephen Douglas |
| She was outraged when she heard about the part of the Compromise of 1850 that would help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| The states that had seceded. | Confederate Sates of America |
| He was a president during Civil War. | Abraham Lincoln |
| He was a president of the Confederacy. | Jefferson Davis |
| An extreme abolitionist. | John Brown |