How were the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 similar?
They affected territories making decisions about whether or not slavery would be legal.
Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who was the most famous Underground Railroad "conductor"?
Harriet Tubman
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.
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 led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA?
John Brown
What was the outcome of Dred Scott's case?
Dred Scott's case made it all the way to the Supreme Court where they decided he would have to remain a slave. Slaves did not have the right to sue.
Who was a former slave who learned to read and write, making him a leader in the abolitionist movement?
Frederick Douglass
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 Underground Railroad?
A series of safe houses where "conductors" helped slaves escape to free states in the North.
Who had the nickname "Moses"?
Harriet Tubman
What was the Missouri Compromise?
A law that permitted Missouri to become a slave state if Maine would become a free state.
What president was responsible for the Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson
What was the Trail of Tears?
The pathway many Native Americans tribes took to Indian Territory after they were forced to give up their land. Many NA died and faced challenges on this trail.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
A law that returned slaves who escaped to free states back to their owners.
What is an abolitionist?
Someone who wants to get rid of slavery.
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?
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