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Questions:
1. What was the Wilmot Proviso, and what basis did he use for proposing it?
2. What were two parts of the Compromise of 1850 that satisfied the north?
3. What were two parts of the Compromise of 1850 that satisfied the south?
4. What did the concept of popular sovereignty mean as it related to newly acquired territories in the US?
5. How did this Underground Railroad operate?
6. What impact did the book Uncle Tom's Cabin have on northern and southern audiences?
7. What was one specific part of the Fugitive Slave Act that would impact runaway slaves if they were caught?
8. What was one specific part of the Fugitive Slave Act that would impact abolitionists were caught helping slaves escape to freedom?
9. What was the most significant result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, as it pertained to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, that led to so much more sectional hostility between the north and south in the years preceding the Civil War?