Unit One-Aice U.S History

Question 1

Compromise of 1850

Answer 1

-California is a free state
-rest of lands of Mexico cession have no restriction on slavery(pleases south)
-New Mexico & Utah created created as terrioties
-New Mexico & Utah use popular soverneity to vote on slavery
-slave trade made illegal in DC
-powerful fugitive slave act made

Question 2

How was the Fugitive Slave Act different from pervious laws

Answer 2

-It was more harsh than pervois law
-fuguitive slaves can not ask for trail by jury
-African American slaves =not citizen

Question 3

What are Personal Liberity laws?

Answer 3

The right to have slaves

Question 4

What did the sumpreme Court conclude in Prigg v Pennslvania

Answer 4

meant to help slave owners recalim their property(fugutive slave act)

Question 5

what is the Fugitive Slave Act of (1850)

Answer 5

mandated that states to which escaped slaves fled were obligated to return them to their masters

Question 6

Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 6

The Underground railroad9typically fled to Canada &Mexico)

Question 7

What happened to Willam Parker (1851)

Answer 7

Formally enslaved, resisted and was arrested

Question 8

What was the Christiana Riot (Resistance to Fugitive Slave Act)

Answer 8

African American
&White Abolitionist faught and had a roit. The intent was to catch hidden slaves in the city