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Friday

Event quiz. Friday. Missouri Compromise. The number of slave states and free states ws kept balanced when Missouri was allowed into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Fugitive Slave Law. Escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners even if they were in free state.

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Friday

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  1. Event quiz Friday

  2. Missouri Compromise • The number of slave states and free states ws kept balanced when Missouri was allowed into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state

  3. Fugitive Slave Law • Escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners even if they were in free state.

  4. Compromise of 1850 • California became a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed

  5. Kansas-Nebraska Act • The people of each territory were allowed to decide whether it should be free or slave

  6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin • This book described the cruelties of slavery and won over many people to the abolitionist cause.

  7. Dred Scott Decision • The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens of the US and had no rights.

  8. John Brown’s plan • A plan to attack people with weapons from the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.

  9. Abraham Lincoln • “If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong…

  10. Stephen Douglas • “Each state… has a right to do as it pleases…on slavery.

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