__________________ became a slave state as a result of the Missouri Compromise.

The Compromise of 1850 made ___________ a free state.

The most hated provision of the Compromise of 1850 for abolitionists was __________________.

The Compromise of 1850 made ________________ illegal in Washington, DC

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by ________________.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854. It allowed the people in these territories to vote on whether to allow slavery. This concept of allowing the people to choose whether their state would be free or slave was known as _______________________________.

As a result of popular sovereignty, fighting erupted in1855 in the territory of _________________ between pro-slavery forces and settlers who opposed the spread of slavery.