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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fugitive Slave Act | law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal, and required their return to slaveholders |
| Anthony burns | Enslaved African American, he ran away and was arrested in Boston. His arrest became the center of violent protests by northern opponents of the Fugitive Slave Act |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists’ cause |
| Wilmot Proviso | A proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the United States by the Mexican Cession; passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the senator |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | American author and daughter of Lyman Beecher, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay’s proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty |
| Free-Soil Party | a political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the Whig and Democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue |
| Sectionalism | A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole |
| Explain the changes that happened due to the Compromise of 1850. | CA would enter the Union as a free state. The rest of the Mexican Cession would be federal land.Texas would give landTexas’s debts from when it was an independent. A more effective fugitive slave law would be passed. |
| Who proposed the Compromise of 1850? | Henry clay |
| What was the author Uncle Tom’s Cabin trying to get her reader to become? | Active abolitionists |
| Who was the senator from Massachusetts that favored Clay’s plan and criticized northern abolitionists and southerners who talked of session | Daniel webster |
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