compromise of 1850

Who created the compromise of 1850 and why

henry Clay, he helped the nation maintain peace and his ideas were designed to give both sides things that they wanted

what were the parts of the compromise that benefited the north

California would enter the Union as a free state, the slave trade but not slavery would end in the nation's capital

Which parts of the compromise would benefit the southern states

The rest of the Mexican cession would be federal land, in this territory popular Sovereignty would decide on slavery, a more effective fugitive slave law would be passed

which part of the compromise doesn’t benefit either side

texas would give up land east of the upper Rio Grande, in return the government would pay Texas's debts from when it was an independent Republic

what was the fugitive Slave Act supposed to allow

Allows Southern slave owners to go up into Northern states and find their escaped slaves and makes it illegal for people to help escaped slaves

what ended up happening with the Fugitive slave Act

slave owners would kidnap un enslaved people from the free states and claim that they were their lost slaves, the people who decide if the slave owner owns the slave and gets them back (commissioners) got paid more to return the slave than to refuse

why was the compromise created

california’s original request to become a state was declined, made it fair for the southern states

why does California apply as a free state

roman catholicism, priests living there, don’t support slavery

what is an abolitionist movement

a movement to get rid of something

what is the effect of the fugitive slave act in the north

creates awareness about slavery, makes people want to stop it

Frederick Douglass

escaped from slavery when he was 20 and went on to become one of the most important African American leaders of the 1800s, very talented at reading and writing even though it was a legal for slaves to learn how to read and write and gave many speeches about slavery towards Northerners

Underground railroad

free African Americans, former slaves, and a few white abolitionists worked together to create a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives or escaped slaves

Harriet Tubman

a courageous conductor on the underground railroad, an escaped slave

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

an anti slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, when Stowe moved to Ohio she learned about the cruelties of slavery and was angry, she wrote it to educate Northerners about slavery

who moved slaves on the Underground Railroad at night

conductors

what were stations and station master

Stations were aware escaped slaves stayed during the day and hid station Masters where the people that owned those places and hid and fed the fugitives

what example of escaped slaves did notherens use to gain sympathy

james Hamlet and Anthony burns

what punishment did people who helped her own away slave face

6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine