The Missouri Compromise (1820)
The Compromise of 1850
The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
The Dred Scott Decision
North and South
100
A line drawn below Missouri and extended westward to separate slave areas from free area.
What is the Missouri Compromise Line?
100
This large state was admitted as a free state.
What is California?
100
Changed Nebraska from a free territory to a territory allowing slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
100
As a result of this slavery was allowed in all territories.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
100
Region containing more natural resources (fossil fuels).
What is the North?
200
A person/movement that is opposed to slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
200
Southwestern territories left open to slavery.
What is Utah and New Mexico Territory.
200
Senator who was attacked by Representative Preston Brooks for voicing opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who is Charles Sumner?
200
The region of the country that celebrated the Dred Scott Decision.
What is the South?
200
Region where more railroad was built.
What is the North?
300
The two states that entered into the union as a result of The Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine and Missouri?
300
Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hamp., Vermont, Maine
What are the free states?
300
Kansas city where pro-slavery activists attacked abolitionists.
What is Lawrence?
300
Man suing for his freedom in federal courts.
Who was Dred Scott?
300
Between 1845-1860 immigrants from these two countries travel to northern cities.
What is Ireland and Germany?
400
The act of withdrawing from an organization or alliance, such as the withdrawal of the southern states from the Union.
What is secession?
400
A law that limited the legal rights of runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
400
To many the Kansas-Nebraska violated this compromise.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
Newly form political party opposed to slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
400
Plantations were mainly found in this region.
What is the South?
500
Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, N.Carolina, S. Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
What are the slave states.
500
Oregon, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas
What are the free territories?
500
The senator that made a deal with the south to create the Kansas - Nebraka Act.
Who is Senator Stephan A Douglas?
500
Based on the Dred Scott Decision this compromise was called unconstitutional, thus opening up the entire west for slavery (minus California)
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
Mountain Range that stretches through the North and the South.
What are the Appalachian Mountains.
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