BYU HIST-043 Key Terms with
correct answers 2025/2026
what advents in technology affected Northern industry in pre-Civil War America. - correct
answersCommunication- *Morse Code*
Transportation- *Locomotive* and *Steam Boat*
Technology- *Cotton Gin*
What is an economy? - correct answersAn economy is a system of producing and consuming
wealth or making money.
abolitionists - correct answersthose who sought to end the practice of slavery
Frederick Douglass. - correct answers(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped
slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his
biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist
newspaper, the North Star.
An association of abolitionists who helped blacks escape slavery through a system of escape
routes and hidden housing - correct answersUnderground Railroad
Loyalty to a particular region or to a state (in this case, it was North versus South) - correct
answersSectionalism
, This doctrine gave people living in a newly organized territory the right to decide, through
elections, whether or not slavery would be permitted in their territory - correct answersPopular
Sovereignty
To withdraw formally from a group, organization, or alliance - correct answerssecede
The process of delivering someone from slavery - correct answersemancipation
Compromise of 1850 - correct answers- *Popular Sovereignty* allowed citizens to vote on
slavery in Utah and New Mexico
- Texas was Given *$10 million* to abandon claims in New Mexico
- *Abolished* slave trade in *Washington D.C*
- Included *Fugitive Slave Act* which made it so laws were put in place to keep slaves from
leaving their masters.
- *California* was admitted to the union as *a free state* (no slaves)
What did Webster mean when he said there "can be no such thing as a peaceable secession"?
After much debate, the Senate settled on a compromise. The Compromise of 1850 consisted of
five parts. - correct answersThat there was no way they could come to an agreement which
would give both the North and South, as well as slaves, exactly what they wanted.
The Fugitive Slave Act - correct answers- required all Northerners to return runaway slaves to
their owners. If a person aided fugitive slaves, the government fined him or her one thousand
dollars and put him or her in jail.
correct answers 2025/2026
what advents in technology affected Northern industry in pre-Civil War America. - correct
answersCommunication- *Morse Code*
Transportation- *Locomotive* and *Steam Boat*
Technology- *Cotton Gin*
What is an economy? - correct answersAn economy is a system of producing and consuming
wealth or making money.
abolitionists - correct answersthose who sought to end the practice of slavery
Frederick Douglass. - correct answers(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped
slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his
biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist
newspaper, the North Star.
An association of abolitionists who helped blacks escape slavery through a system of escape
routes and hidden housing - correct answersUnderground Railroad
Loyalty to a particular region or to a state (in this case, it was North versus South) - correct
answersSectionalism
, This doctrine gave people living in a newly organized territory the right to decide, through
elections, whether or not slavery would be permitted in their territory - correct answersPopular
Sovereignty
To withdraw formally from a group, organization, or alliance - correct answerssecede
The process of delivering someone from slavery - correct answersemancipation
Compromise of 1850 - correct answers- *Popular Sovereignty* allowed citizens to vote on
slavery in Utah and New Mexico
- Texas was Given *$10 million* to abandon claims in New Mexico
- *Abolished* slave trade in *Washington D.C*
- Included *Fugitive Slave Act* which made it so laws were put in place to keep slaves from
leaving their masters.
- *California* was admitted to the union as *a free state* (no slaves)
What did Webster mean when he said there "can be no such thing as a peaceable secession"?
After much debate, the Senate settled on a compromise. The Compromise of 1850 consisted of
five parts. - correct answersThat there was no way they could come to an agreement which
would give both the North and South, as well as slaves, exactly what they wanted.
The Fugitive Slave Act - correct answers- required all Northerners to return runaway slaves to
their owners. If a person aided fugitive slaves, the government fined him or her one thousand
dollars and put him or her in jail.
