Unit 7_5

A person who believed slavery was wrong and should be abolished (ended).

• abolitionist
• fugitive
• Native
• immigrant

This event admitted California as a free state, while Utah and New Mexico could decide on the issue of slavery  for themselves.

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

This law made it illegal to help runaway slaves and required American citizens to report any suspected fugitive slave.

• Compromise of  1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

A hidden network of escape routes with safe houses that would hide runaway enslaved people.

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Underground Railroad
• Slave Auction
• Tubman’s Train

The Northern economy was dependent on 

• enslaved labor
• farming
• factories
• pollution

The Southern economy was dependent on 

• factories
• technology
• railroads
• enslaved labor

One impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was Bleeding Kansas which refers to 

• the violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers
• Kansas’s Red River
• The Native Americans that moved to Kansas
• The reddish soil on Kansas farms

A person who guided fugitives along the Underground Railroad were often called

• leaders
• guides
• conductors
• stations

The book that became popular in 1852 and described the abusive treatment of enslaved people: 

• Her Story: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
• North Star
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

A person who flees or has escaped

• agriculture
• fugitive
• Republican
• abolitionist