1.

Although Daniel Webster supported the provisions of the Compromise Henry Clay
presented, he was opposed to the expansion of slavery, like many other northerners. But,
John Calhoun believed that because the proposal did not provide the South with any
security, any agitation over the subject of slavery would result in the South seceding from
the Union.

2. The argument that slavery allowed for a stable society sustained by contented and well-
cared-for slaves was vehemently advocated by Southerners. They made these claims in
texts that were published.

3. Because the main characters' points of view in each story gave the problem of slavery a
face, the two books had an impact on the American public. For instance, Uncle Tom is
depicted as compassionate, sympathetic, and finally obedient to the miserable existence
of a slave in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Blake's main character, who kills the slave master to get
away, has a violent and rebellious point of view. The North became more hostile to
slavery as a result of Stowe's writings, and the South's slave owners were terrified by
Delany's writings.

4. Extended slavery in the territories was temporarily resolved by the Compromise of 1850,
but it also led to disagreements between the North and the South over the issue of state
rights. In response to the arguments made by Henry Clay, some radicals in the North
opposed popular sovereignty in favor of God's "higher law," and some radicals in the
South threatened to leave the Union in the discussion over whether or not the
Compromise was fair for both sides to implement. Even two senators engaged in physical
altercation over the union's decision to admit California as a free state. Senator Stephen
A. Douglas eventually took the lead and convinced the Senate to pass each plan
separately.

5. Tubman, who was born into slavery in the South, made her way to Philadelphia after
breaking free. Immediately after making her own escape, she started working as a
successful "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. To assist hundreds of slaves escape
plantations and achieve freedom and safety in the North, Tubman frequently traveled to
the South. Several plantation owners offered a bounty for her capture, but nobody ever
managed to catch her.