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A Divided Nation

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  • 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
  • What is another name for the Compromise of 1820?
    Missouri Compromise
  • What needed to be balanced in Congress with respect to territories entering the Union?
    free and slave states
  • Which two territories were open to slavery according to the Compromise of 1850?
    New Mexico and Utah
  • Which state entered free in the Missouri Compromise?
    Maine
  • Who wrote the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin?
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • What was the number of the latitude line used to determine free and slave states?
    36 30
  • Which territory got the nickname of Bleeding due to the violence between pro and anti-slave people?
    Kansas
  • 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
  • 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
  • Where did the Compromise of 1850 end slave trade?
    Washington, D.C. or Capital
  • Who is a person who tries to escape?
    fugitive