U.S. Key Events

Question 1

A novel about slavery which was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It became a bestseller in the North. It made people start to view slavery as more of a moral problem, not just a political conflict.

Answer 1

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 2

An agreement made between supporters of slavery in the South and opponents of slavery in the North. The agreement included four parts: California was admitted as a free state, the slave trade was banned in the nation’s capital, popular sovereignty would be used to decide the question of slavery in the states created from the Mexican Cession, and a tough new fugitive slave law was put in place

Answer 2

Compromise of 1850

Question 3

This was an agreement created in 1820 to establish and maintain the balance between free and slave states. Maine was a free state, and Missouri was a slave state.

Answer 3

Missouri Compromise

Question 4

Popular sovereignty would be used to decide the issue of slavery in the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory

Answer 4

Kansas-Nebraska Act