| Term | Definition |
|---|
| a crisis arosed in Congress | What happened when California requested admission to the Union as a free state in 1850? *** |
| feared they would be out voted in the Senate | What was the fear of the people in the South? *** |
| remove | What does the word secede mean? *** |
| The Great Compromiser | What was Senator Henry Clay's nickname? *** |
| Clay - against Calhoun - for | What were Senators Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun's position on the issue of slavery? *** |
| runaway | What is a fugitive? *** |
| against slavery; feared states could not seperate without a bloody civil war | What position did Daniel Webster hold? What did Webster fear? *** |
| a war between people of the same country | What is a Civil War? *** |
| The South! The poor South! God knows what will become of her know! | What were John C. Calhoun's dying words? *** |
| 5; California - free; divied Mexicana cession inot New Mexico and Utah; ended slave trade in Washington; included fugitive laws; settled border dispute - New Mexico and Texas | How many parts did the Compromise of 1850 have? Name each of them. |
| true | This act of 1850 required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves. People who let fugitives escape could be fined $1000 and jailed. *** |
| it enraged them | What was the reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act in the North? *** |
| Uncle Tom's cabin | What was a popular bestseller in 1852? *** |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin? *** |
| to show evils of slavery | What was the purpose of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin? |
| Tom - slave; Simon - Tom's master | Who are Uncle Tom and Simon Legree? |
| North - popular; South- objected | What was the reaction to Uncle Tom's Cabin in the North and South? *** |
| North- changed how they felt, thought of it as a moral problem | What effect did Uncle Tom's Cabin have on the North and South? *** |
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