| A | B |
|---|
| California | joined the Union, as a free state, in 1850 |
| Thomas Hart Benton | Senator from Missouri |
| Senator Foote of Mississippi | Threatened violence with a gun on the Senate floor |
| Michigan, Iowa,and Wisconsin | Entered the Union as free states |
| Ark. Fl. and Tx | Entered the Union as slave states |
| Henry Clay | "The Great Compromiser" |
| John C. Calhoun | S.C. Senator who demanded that slavery be allowed in the western territory |
| fugitive | a runaway |
| Daniel Webster | Mass. Senator who supported the plea to save the Union |
| civil war | war between people of the same country |
| Stephen Douglas | Illinois Senator who guided the Compromise of 1850 through Congress |
| Comp of 1850(part 1) | California enters Union as a free state |
| Comp of 1850(part 2) | rest of Mex. Cession divided into territories of NM and Utah |
| Comp of 1850(part 3) | slave trade ended in Washington D.C. |
| Comp of 1850(part 4) | strict new fugitive slave law passed |
| Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 | all help catch runaway slaves or be fined $1,000 and jailed 6mo. |
| $10.00 | Amount judge received for sending a slave back to the South |
| $5.00 | amount a judge received for setting a slave free |
| Canada | where thousands of free blacks fled after Fugitive Slave Law passed |
| "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 300,000 | number of copies of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" sold in the first year |
| moral problem | how many were now viewing the slavery issue |
| "So this is the little woman who made this big war" | quote by Lincoln when refering to Stowe and her novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
