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Question 1

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 1

A belief that ultimate power resides in the people. This was used in the territories to decide if it would join as a free or slave state after the Mexican Cession.

Question 2

Compromise of 1850

Answer 2

California admitted as a free state, a stricter Fugitive Slave Act, made popular sovereignty in most territories from Mexican- American War(Mexican Cession) and banned the slave trade in Washington D.C.

Question 3

Underground Railroad

Answer 3

A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North and British Canada.

Question 4

Harriet Tubman

Answer 4

Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad. Southerners offered a $40,000 reward for her capture.

Question 5

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 5

(1811-1896) American author who was an abolitionist and wrote of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Question 6

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 6

1850 a 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. This was one part of the Compromise of 1850.

Question 7

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Answer 7

Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.

Question 8

Bleeding Kansas (1856)

Answer 8

A series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.

Question 9

Republican Party

Answer 9

Political party created in the 1850’s that believed in the non-expansion of slavery & consisted of Whigs, N. Democrats, & Free-Soilers.

Question 10

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 10

16th president of the United States; helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederacy; an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery.

Question 11

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Answer 11

1857 Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were not citizens. Slaves were property no matter where they were living and the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional.

Question 12

John Brown

Answer 12

NY abolitionist who went to Kansas to stop pro-slavery forces and later was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.

Question 13

Sectionalism

Answer 13

Different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures (as the North, South and West). This can lead to conflict.

Question 14

Roger Taney

Answer 14

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1836-64.