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What is another name for the Compromise of 1820?
Missouri Compromise
Which state entered free in the Missouri Compromise?
Maine
What needed to be balanced in Congress with respect to territories entering the Union?
free and slave states
What was the number of the latitude line used to determine free and slave states?
36 30
Before the 36 30 line which river determined between free and slave states?
Ohio
What rule was created to table discussions of slavery in Congress?
Gag
Who is a person who tries to escape?
fugitive
Which two territories were open to slavery according to the Compromise of 1850?
New Mexico and Utah
Where did the Compromise of 1850 end slave trade?
Washington, D.C. or Capital
Who wrote the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Which territory got the nickname of Bleeding due to the violence between pro and anti-slave people?
Kansas
What is the term for the authority of the people living in a territory to decide if it will be free or slave?
popular sovereignty
How did Southerners show support of Preston Brook's attack on Charles Sumner?
sent him more canes
What did Southerners call Northerners who did not return fugitive slaves?
bankrobbers
