Create a Top Five list of events related to westward expansion that affected African Americans.
Choose from the following:
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Nat Turner's Rebellion
• Bleeding Kansas
• Harpers Ferry
[Write with
complete sentences why this event had the greatest impact on African Americans
as the country expanded west]
Fugitive Slave Act. It caused runaway Slaves to be tracked by bloodhounds. It also was also passed in 1793 to 1850 to provide the return of Slaves who escaped from one state to another.
