Social Studies 14.2

Propaganda

false or misleading information that is spread to further a cause

__________ pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act through Congress.

Stephen Douglas

In 1850, slave trade was banned in ___________-.

Washington D.C

What was the reaction of many northerners to Uncle Tom's Cabin?

The book was a bestseller in the North. It shocked thousands of people who were previously unconcerned about slavery. Stowe's book showed that slavery was not just a political conflict, but a real human problem.

What was the effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

This in effect undid the Missouri Compromise. Northerners were angered that the slavery issue was to be reopened in the territories. Southern support enabled the Kansas-Nebraska Act to pass in both houses of Congress.

John Brown

an anti slavery settler who led attacks on pro slavery settlers in Kansas He believed that violence was necessary to end slavery. He murdered 5 people.

Name the method used to determine the status of slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.

popular sovereignty

Many southerners considered Uncle Tom's Cabin misleading ___________.

propaganda

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, northerner against slavery, Daughter of an abolitionist minister.

The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to join the United States as a free state and passed a strict _________, which allowed escaped slaves in the North to be recaptured.

Fugitive Slave Act

____________ wrote the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

___________ was an antislavery settler who led attacks on pro slavery settlers in Kansas.

John Brown

_______ suffered widespread violence as proslavery and antislavery settlers fought for control of the territory.

Kansas

The______________ Act allowed settlers in the territories to decide whether to allow slavery.

Kansas-Nebraska

How did northerners react to the Compromise of 1850?

Many northerners were angry about the Fugitive Slave Act, which arrested any African American who was considered a slave. They were outraged to see many African Americans forced into slavery and flee to Canada. Many northerners did not help enforce the Act.

What did each side get in the Compromise of 1850?

North Gets: -California admitted as a free state -Slave trade prohibited in Washington D.C. -Texas loses boundary dispute with New Mexico South Gets: -No slavery restrictions in Utah or New Mexico territories -Texas gets $10 million -Fugitive Slave Law

Kansas election of 1855:

Number of voters: 3,000 Number of votes cast: 8,000

Stephen Douglas

Pushed through the Kansas Nebraska Act, Wanted to see a railroad built from Illinois through the Nebraska territory to the Pacific Coast. Wanted to build lands lest of Illinois.

Name two parts of the Fugitive Slave Act.

The Fugitive Slave Act allowed government officials to arrest anyone accused of being a runaway slave. A person could be declared a runaway slave if just one white person said it was true. Another part was the Northerners were supposed to help capture runaway slaves.