Section 2: Compromises Fail

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Pushed the Kansas Nebraska Act through congress.

Stephen Douglas

In 1850, slavery was banned in -?

D.C.

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

An antislavery activist who led attacks on proslavery settlers in Kansas.

John Brown

The ________ Act allowed settlers in territories to decide wether to allow slavery.

Kansas Nebraska

Many Southerners considered Uncle Tom's Cabin misleading.

Propoganda

How did Northerners react to the compromise of 1850. (answers may very)

They did not like the Fugitive Slave Act

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.

law


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