Module 1 Lesson 5 Part II

What made the North and South so different in the mid-1800s?

• The economy of the North focused on industry, while the South relied on enslaved labor

• The South built factories, while the North focused on plantation farming

• The North allowed slavery, while the South passed laws against it

• The economy of the South depended on trade, while the North depended on farming.

Why did California’s request for statehood cause debate in 1850?

• Its constitution banned slavery, but it was located south of the Missouri Compromise line

• As a new state, its population was small, but it demanded the same rights as larger states

• Its government supported slavery, but it applied to join as a free state

• Its borders were unclear, and both Texas and Mexico claimed its territory

What was the main goal of the Compromise of 1850?

• To create a balance between free states and slave states in Congress

• To remove all questions about slavery from American politics

• To expand slavery into all new western territories without restriction

• To guarantee that slavery would end in the United States by 1860

What does popular sovereignty mean in the context of admitting new states to the Union?

• People in a territory voted to decide whether slavery would be allowed

• Congress passed a law to decide if slavery was legal in every territory

• The president appointed leaders to control slavery in new territories

• Judges in the Supreme Court ruled on whether slavery could expand

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 upset many northerners?

• The admission of California as a free state

• The creation of a stronger Fugitive Slave Law

• The decision to let Utah and New Mexico vote on slavery

• The agreement to settle Texas’s border with New Mexico

What did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 require?

• All states had to allow slavery

• The return of runaway slaves from the North to the South

• All slaves had to be freed by age 25

• Northern states could decide whether to return runaway slaves

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A secret tunnel system under southern plantations

• A network of people who helped enslaved people escape to freedom

• A train route that carried freedmen to northern cities

• A law that required free states to protect fugitive slaves

Who was Harriet Tubman?

• An abolitionist author who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• A formerly enslaved senator who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• A former slave who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad

• A southern leader who defended slavery in Congress

This 1851 abolitionist newspaper is encouraging Northerners to resist what?

• The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850’s admission of California

What impact did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have?

• It was banned in the North as being too violent

• It convinced many northerners that slavery was a moral problem

• It stopped the Fugitive Slave Act from being enforced

• It caused Harriet Tubman to return to the South