7th grade SS Ch. 15.1

Question 1

What is Wilmot Proviso?

Answer 1

1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico.

Question 2

What is the Free Soil Party?

Answer 2

Political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.

Question 3

Who is Stephen A Douglas?

Answer 3

Illinois senator who backed the Compromise of 1850.

Question 4

What is the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 4

A series of laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states & slave states.

Question 5

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

Answer 5

1850 law meant to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.

Question 6

Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?

Answer 6

An abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Question 7

What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 7

A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that showed slavery as brutal & immoral.

Question 8

What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?

Answer 8

1854 law that established the territories of Kansas & Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide to allow slavery or not.

Question 9

What is bickering?

Answer 9

Petty quarreling

Question 10

What is Popular Sovereignty?

Answer 10

A system in which issues are decided by the citizenry or voters.