How Did The Mexican-American War To Prohibit Slavery In The United States

Name: __________________________ Quiz 1
Date: ___________________________
Match the letter of correct vocabulary word with the corresponding definition. Each vocabulary word will only be used once. A) Missouri compromise
B) Compromise of 1850
C) Kansas – Nebraska Act
D) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
E) Bleeding Kansas
F) Dred Scott vs. Sanford
G) Harper’s Ferry
H) Wilmot Proviso
I) Popular sovereignty
J) Republican Party
K) Panic of 1857
L) Lincoln-Douglas Debates
M) Fugitive Slave Law
N) Election of 1852
O) Impending Crisis of the South

___ bill proposed during the Mexican-American War to prohibit slavery in new territories
___ written by Hinton R. Helper and argued that slavery was bad for the Southern economy
___ in 1820, one state was admitted as a slave state while other was a slavery- free state; prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory about the 36 30’ line

__ states decide on the issue of slavery
___ California admitted as a free state; slave trade abolished in Washington, D.C.; Utah and New Mexico were created
___ repealed the Missouri Compromise and gave the new states on Nebraska and Kansas the right to use popular sovereignty
___ unsuccessfully John Brown tried to create a slave revolt in Virginia
___ a series of debates over issues such as slavery and new territories in 1858
___ new political party formed as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and an opposition to slavery
___ antislavery and proslavery supporters who tried to established homes in this new state and used violence to try and gain control
___ required that Northern states follow run that captured runaway slaves be returned their