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How were the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 similar?
They affected territories making decisions about whether or not slavery would be legal.
What president was responsible for the Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson
What was the Compromise of 1850?
It said that if California was a free state, then the Fugitive Slave Act had to be passed.
What was the purpose of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
To give a criteria (list of things) that a territory needed to become a state?
What is an abolitionist?
Someone who wants to get rid of slavery.
Who had the nickname "Moses"?
Harriet Tubman
What was the Underground Railroad?
A series of safe houses where "conductors" helped slaves escape to free states in the North.
Who was the most famous Underground Railroad "conductor"?
Harriet Tubman
Who was a former slave who learned to read and write, making him a leader in the abolitionist movement?
Frederick Douglass
Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who was the founder of The Liberator newspaper?
William Lloyd Garrison
Who led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA?
John Brown
What was the Missouri Compromise?
A law that permitted Missouri to become a slave state if Maine would become a free state.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
A law that returned slaves who escaped to free states back to their owners.
What was the Kansas Nebraska Act?
A law that allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to vote on whether or not they wanted to be free or slave states.
Who was Dred Scott?
He was a former slave who sued for his owner for his freedom because he had lived with his owner in free states.
