| Term | Definition |
|---|
| What happened when California requested admission to the Union as a free state in 1850? *** | Senator Thomas Hart Brenon approved their request |
| What was the fear of the people in the South? *** | The south feared that they would be hopelessly out voted |
| What does the word secede mean? *** | Remove |
| What was Senator Henry Clay's nickname? *** | "the Great Compromiser" |
| What were Senators Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun's position on the issue of slavery? *** | Clay felt that slavery should be banned and John Calhoun said that it should be aloud in the western terrotories and that fugitives should be returned be returned to there slaveholders |
| What is a fugitive? *** | A runaway |
| What position did Daniel Webster hold? What did Webster fear? *** | He wanted to ban slavery. He feared that the states could not separate without having a bloody civil war |
| What is a Civil War? *** | A civil war is a war insides its own country |
| What were John C. Calhoun's dying words? *** | "The South! The poor South! God knows what will become of her now!" |
| How many parts did the Compromise of 1850 have? Name each of them. | It had five. First it aloud California to be accept as a free state. Second it divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into the terrotories of New Mexico and Utah. Third, it ended slave trade in the nations capital. Fourth it included a strict fugitive law. Fifth it selled a border dispute between tezas and New Mexican |
| This act of 1850 required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves. People who let fugitives escape could be fined $1000 and jailed. *** | The fugitive slave act |
| What was the reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act in the North? *** | The act enraged northenors it made them feel part of the slave system |
| What was a popular bestseller in 1852? *** | UNCLE TOM'S CABIN |
| Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin? *** | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| What was the purpose of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin? | To show the evil of slavery |
| Who are Uncle Tom and Simon Legree? | Charectars in the book |
| What was the reaction to Uncle Tom's Cabin in the North and South? *** | The north agreedto the book but the south objected the book |
| What effect did Uncle Tom's Cabin have on the North and South? *** | The north now saw it as a moral problem. It is now one of the most important books in American history |
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