4C Union in Peril

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

• A proposed rule to ban slavery in the lands acquired from the Mexican-American War
• A law that allowed people in new territories to decide if they wanted slavery or not
• A political group that was against slavery and wanted new territories to be free from slavery
• An agreement made about whether new states should allow slavery or not

What is Popular Sovereignty?

• A proposed rule to ban slavery in the lands acquired from the Mexican-American War
• A law that allowed people in new territories to decide if they wanted slavery or not
• A political group that was against slavery and wanted new territories to be free from slavery
• An agreement made about whether new states should allow slavery or not

What was the Free-Soil Party?

• A proposed rule to ban slavery in the lands acquired from the Mexican-American War
• A law that allowed people in new territories to decide if they wanted slavery or not
• A political group that was against slavery and wanted new territories to be free from slavery
• An agreement made about whether new states should allow slavery or not

What was the Compromise of 1850?

• A proposed rule to ban slavery in the lands acquired from the Mexican-American War
• A law that allowed people in new territories to decide if they wanted slavery or not and repealed fugitive slave laws
• A political group that was against slavery and wanted new territories to be free from slavery and maintain existing fugitive slave laws
• An agreement made about whether new states should allow slavery or not and created a more strict fugitive slave law.

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Less strict slave codes in western territories
• A law that allowed people in new territories to decide if they wanted slavery or not
• Legislation that allowed escaped slaves to keep their status as freemen if they reached the north
• A law that said escaped slaves could be caught and forced to go back to their owners

What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• A book advocating for the spread of slavery into western territories
• The name of a large infamous plantation in the South
• The location of John Brown's famous raid and attack on the institution of slavery
• A powerful story,written in response to the fugitive slave act, that showed the terrible things that happened to enslaved people

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• A proposed rule to ban slavery in the lands acquired from the Mexican-American War
• A law that allowed people in the Kansas & Nebraska territories to decide if they wanted slavery or not
• A law that reinforced the existing principles of the Missouri Compromise
• A piece of legislation outlawing slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories

What shared political stance led to the creation of the Republican Party?

• Opposition to slavery and wanting to stop it from spreading to new places
• Support of Jacksonian democracy and slavery
• Opposition of the Abolition Movement
• Support of secession of the Southern States

Who was John Brown?

• An escaped slave who dedicated his life to educating people about the horrors of slavery
• A plantation owner who violently defended slavery in the South and West
• A northern politician advocating for popular sovereignty
• An American abolitionist who strongly believed that slavery was wrong and was willing to use violence to try to end it

What was Bleeding Kansas?

• The location of the first battles of the Civil War after the South seceded from the Union
• The location of the largest slave uprising in American history
• A period of time when slavery spread to every part of Nebraska and Kansas
• A time when the territory of Kansas became a battleground between people who wanted slavery and people who wanted it to be free