Chapter 10 Slavery

Question 1

General Land Office

Answer 1

An administrative body chartered by Congress in 1812 to survey land and supervise settlement in the new western territories.

Question 2

“gag rule”

Answer 2

Adopted by Congress under partisan and sectional pressures, a series of rules barring any discussion of antislavery petition from 1836 until 1844.

Question 3

Panic of 1837

Answer 3

A financial calamity in the United States brought on by a dramatic slowdown in the British economy and falling cotton prices, failed crops, high inflation, and reckless state banks.