The Compromise

Question 1

The Triumvirate

Answer 1

Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, three statesmen who dominated politics at the time

Question 2

Fugitive Slave Law

Answer 2

Law that required slaves to be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state, allowed any African American to basically be kidnapped

Question 3

Cotton v. Conscience Whigs

Answer 3

Cotton: faction of northern Whigs that did not fight and at times actively supported slavery, Conscience: people who actively fought to end slavery

Question 4

Rev. Samuel Ringgold Ward

Answer 4

African American who escaped enslavement and became an abolitionist, editor, and author, most importantly was the first African American labor union leader, American League of Colored Laborers

Question 5

Compromise of 1850

Answer 5

1850, laws that balanced the Northern desire to prevent the expansion of slavery (California and Washington DC), with the Southern desire to expand slavery, along with amending the Fugitive Slave Act