| Worksheet # 66 Compromise of 1850 schism demographics Mason-Dixon Border Ruffians Wilmot Proviso Kansas-Nebraska Act Whigs Charles Sumner nullification 1) Political party who favored strong central government and whose members began to strongly oppose slavery: __________. 2) Proposal to ban all slavery from all new western states: ________. 3) Characteristics and statistics about human populations: ________. 4) A word meaning a divide or cultural separation: _________. 5) The law which repealed the Missouri Compromise and let new states vote for themselves to have slavery or not:__________. 6) Attempt to settle how the issue of slavery would be settled in western states that entered the union: __________. 7) The leading abolitionist Senator who was savagely beaten while giving a speech: _________. 8) The old theory of state's rights that they did not have to obey laws which they found unconstitutional: ___________. 9) The theoretical border between The North and The South:________. 10) Missouri slave-supporters who went to Kansas to vote for slavery and to harass abolitionists: ______________. Thought Question: Why were the North and South concerned over whether new states to the union would have slavery or not? |
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