The Missouri Compromise
The number of free states and number of slave states in 1819 that created a balance in the Senate.
Eleven
President who won the 1848 election as a Whig candidate. He was a war hero with ZERO political experience. Died in office.
Zachary Taylor
Southern viewpoint that each state should decide if it would be free or slave.
popular sovereignty
Admission of this state to the Union in 1850 would upset the balance of power between slave and free states.
California
This is the name for the rivalry and tension between the North and South before the Civil War.
sectionalism
State which asked to join the Union as a slave state in 1819.
Missouri
South Carolina U.S. Senator who was a strong supporter of slavery. He died during the Compromise of 1850 debates.
John Calhoun
Political party in the mid-1800's that wanted to keep slavery out of the new U.S. land in the West.
Free-Soil Party
Senators Clay and Webster said this would happen if the nation didn't compromise regarding slavery in 1850
The nation would fall apart.
Failed 1846 law that would have banned slavery in the land the U.S. got from Mexico after the Mexican-American War.
Wilmot Proviso
State which asked to join the Union in 1820 as a free state that would keep the balance between slave and free states.
Maine
Massachusetts U.S. Senator who helped bring about the Compromise of 1850. He wanted compromise because he wanted to run for President and didn't want to lose the Southern votes.
Daniel Webster
secede
Illinois U.S. Senator who helped get the Compromise of 1850 passed when Senator Clay was too sick to continue.
Stephen Douglas
Former U.S. President who ran as President for the Free-Soil Party in 1848.
Martin Van Buren
Latitude 36 degrees 30'
Imaginary line drawn on the map of the U.S. After 1820, new states south of it would be slave. States north of it would be free.
Became President when Taylor died in office. Signed the Fugitive Slave Act into law. Hated Jews, Catholics, and African-Americans.
Millard Fillmore
A war between people of the same country
civil war
The Compromise abolished the slave trade in what major U.S. city?
Washington, D.C.
This 1852 book helped people realize the evils of slavery. It is called the most important book in U.S. history.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Senator from Kentucky who suggested the Missouri Compromise.
Henry Clay
Writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
An African-American who fled North from slavery in the South.
fugitive
This controversial part of the Compromise required Northern states to return escaped slaves to their owners in the South.
Fugitive Slave Act
Likely cause of President Taylor's death in 1850. Don't eat the potato salad!
Food poisoning