Question

Match these items. 1 . Stephen Douglas published "North Star" 2 . Frederick Douglass first African slaves arrived in Jamestown 3 . Crittenden Compromise proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act 4 . Republican Party extend 36° 30' line to California 5 . Abolitionists servitude in exchange for passage to the United States 6 . indentured struggle between proslavery and antislavery groups 7 . Jefferson Davis formed to prevent spread of slavery 8 . "Bleeding Kansas" wanted slavery abolished 9 . Uncle Tom's Cabin president of Confederacy 10 . 1619 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

1 . Stephen Douglas proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act  

2 . Frederick Douglass published "North Star"

3 . Crittenden Compromise extend 36° 30' line to California  

4 . Republican Party formed to prevent spread of slavery

5 . Abolitionists wanted slavery abolished  

6 . Indentured servitude in exchange for passage to the United States  

7 . Jefferson Davis president of Confederacy  

8 . "Bleeding Kansas" struggle between proslavery and antislavery groups  

9 . Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe

10 . 1619 first African slaves arrived in Jamestown

More details:

Stephen Douglas was a politician from Illinois who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act as with the initial purpose of opening up thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. The popular sovereignty clause of the law led pro- and anti-slavery elements to flood into Kansas with the goal of voting slavery up or down, resulting in Bleeding Kansas.

Frederick Douglas was a great social reformer who had escaped from the slavery in Maryland and he published in New York a famous anti-slavery newspaper called "The North Star" which slogan was "Right is of no Sex—Truth is of no Color—God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

The Crittenden Compromise was an unsuccessful proposal introduced by United States Senator John J. Crittenden (Constitutional Unionist of Kentucky) on December 18, 1860. It extended the line which separated Kansas from Arkansas along all the territory of the Union, establishing different conditions in the face of slavery for states that are north of such line with respect to the states that are to the south.

Republican Party was formed by anti-slavery politicians who were opposite to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The separated from the Democrat Party for this reason.

Abolitionists were people who opposed strongly from any kind of slavery. They proposed to abolish the slavery in every states eliminating it immediately and completely without payment to the slave owners.

Indentured was a system created by the Virginia Company in 1607 to increase the workers population in America by paying many people passages from  Europe or Africa in change of a period of time that they had to work by their employees. Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy.

Jefferson Finis Davis was an American politician who served as the sole president of the Confederate states from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before changing his allegiance to the Confederation

The Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent civil clashes in the United States between 1854 and 1861 that arose out of a political and ideological debate about the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. The conflict was characterized by years of electoral fraud, incursions, assaults and paid murders carried out by rival factions of anti-slavery Free-Staters, and pro-slavery Border Ruffians in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring state of Missouri.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was a very famous book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe  where are narrated stories that show the way of life of the slaves in the plantations and the harsh situations that they had to face.

1619  was the year when the first group of slaves came to the American Colonies in Jamestown, Virginia.