Compromise of 1850, Dred Scott decision, fugitive, Missouri Compromise, Union, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Wilmot Proviso
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- Q1
the agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a state in which slavery was illegal. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the trade of enslaved people in Washington, D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law.
fugitive
Union
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
30s - Q2
A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Union
Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott decision
30s - Q3
A person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery)
Runner
Escape
Fugitive
Union
30s - Q4What legislation allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery in their territories?Missouri CompromiseCompromise of 1850Kansas-Nebraska ActWilmot Proviso30s
- Q5
An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a state in which slavery was legal and Maine was admitted as a state in which slavery was illegal
Missouri Compromise
Union
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Wilmot Proviso
30s - Q6
The United States as one nation united under a single government. During the Civil War, “the Union” came to mean the government and armies of the North.
United
Constitution
Fugitive
Union
30s - Q7
A proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War
Missouri Compromise
fugitive
Compromise of 1850
Wilmot Proviso
30s