How did the Kansas-Nebraska act affect the population of the territories?
The population increased as settlers flooded into the territory
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Many northerners would not report fugitive slaves who were ...
runaway slaves
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Why was the South alarmed by the Wilmot Proviso?
Banning new slave states would give free states a majority in both houses of Congress
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What were the main issues that led to Henry Clay's proposed compromise?
California applying to be a state, northern desire to ban the slave trade in the District of Columbia (DC), and the South wanting a fugitive slave law.
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What did southerners want congress to do about enslaved people who had fled to the North?
pass a law that would force the return of fugitives
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How did northerners react to enforcement to the Fugitive Slave Law?
They resisted it
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What event did both southerners worry would destroy the balance of power between them?
The admission of California into the Union
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How did Stephen Douglas's plan undo the Missouri Compromise?
By allowing the territories to use popular sovereignty to decide the use of slavery, the Missouri Compromise ban was ended.
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What parts of the Compromise of 1850 were included to please the North?
It admitted California as a free state
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What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act
It created two territories from the Nebraska territory. Whether slavery was allowed or not to be decided by popular sovereignty.
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What was the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay's proposal to use popular sovereignty to decide whether new states had slavery, except California and DC would be a free state.
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What was one of the effects of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"
Northerners and southerners became more angry with each other. Many began to see slavery as a moral issue.
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If southern states seceded from the Union, then ....
The union would split in two and be separate countries.
