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Section 2
Term | Question and Answer |
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The Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay created it |
4 parts of the Compromise of 1850 | California is a free state Slave trade ends in washington DC Utah and New Mexico are decided by popular sovereignty Fugitive Slave act is passed |
What are the concerns over the Fugitive Slave Act? | Free people were illegally being forced into slavery and abolitionists did not want to return runaway slaves |
What was decided about the Nebraska and Kansas Territory under the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | Kansas and Nebraska would be decided by Popular sovereignty. |
What happened in Kansas because of the Kansas Nebraska Act? | Both anti slavery and pro slavery wanted to win the vote for slave or free. Both sides argued and violence soon broke out giving it the name bleeding kansas. |
Harriet Beech Stowe | Daughter of an abolitionist wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a fictional account of slavery, brought to light the emotional side of slavery and "humanized" slaves |
Frederick Douglass | A runaway slave wrote a book about his experience as a slave , gave powerful speeches against slavery |
John Brown | settler from Connecticut, led 7 men to a proslavery settlement and killed 5 men and boys (took extremes) |
Propaganda | False information used to spread information to support a cause |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe emphasizing the inhumanity of slavery |
Stephen Douglas | Senator, he proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act, and he wanted a railroad to be built from Illinois through the Nebraska territory to the Pacific Coast. |