7th Social Studies
14-2 scavenger hunt
Mrs. Rapier-Chismar 
Name___________________________HR-#
Date_______________________________
Use pages 486-491 to answer the following questions.
1. Identify the five parts of the Compromise of 1850.
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California enters as a free state
Popular Sovereignty will decide Mexican Cession; slave v. free
Slave trade banned in Washington D.C.
Stronger fugitive slave law
TX/NM border dispute settled in NM favor
2. What were the provisions of the new Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
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Special force to arrest accused runaway slaves
No trial for accused slaves
All Northerners to help in apprehending fugitive slaves
Whites had to swear that blacks were their property
3. Why was the Fugitive Slave Act so controversial?
It didn’t require accusers to show evidence that the person was a runaway.
4. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
5. How was the book received in the North? The South?
Northerners became more aware of slavery and thought it to be immoral.
Southerners thought they were portrayed unfairly.
6. ____________Propaganda______ is false or misleading information that is spread to
further a cause.
7. Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854?
Stephen Douglas
8. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act propose?
Created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and allowed popular sovereignty to
decide the issue of slavery.
9. How did many Northerners react to the KS-NB Act?
They were outraged and felt betrayed.
10. What happened in the Kansas elections? What was/were the result(s) of the elections?
Many people from Missouri illegally voted in the Kansas elections. As a result, a
proslavery government was elected. But anti-slavery factions refused to recognize
the elected government and formed their own government.
11. Who was John Brown?
Fervent abolitionist who led an attack on a proslavery settlement at Pottawatomie
Creek where five men and boys were killed.
12. To what does Bleeding Kansas refer?
The fighting between the proslavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas.
13. Explain how violence spread to the Senate?
Charles Sumner verbally attacked Andrew Butler in the Senate; however, Butler
was absent. A few days later, Preston Brooks, Butler’s nephew, marched into the
Senate and beat Sumner with a heavy cane until he was unconscious.