Missouri Compromise
Known as the "Great Compromiser," this man created the Missouri Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
This golden state was admitted to the Union as a free state as a result of the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
This Illinois Senator was the main creator of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Who is Stephen Douglas?
What is Harpers Ferry?
This eastern state was the birthplace of Dred Scott in 1799.
What is Virginia?
Two states were added to the Union as a result of the Missouri Compromise. ______________ joined as a slave state and ____________ joined as a free state.
What are Missouri and Maine?
The Compromise of 1850 banned the slave trade in this part of the United States.
What is Washington D.C.?
The nickname for Kansas following the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
John Brown and his followers raided this type of building in order to capture weapons to give them to local slaves in hopes that they would fight back.
What is an arsenal?
This was the slave state where Dred Scott lived starting in 1833.
What is Missouri?
Slavery would not be allowed north of this line, according to the Missouri Compromise.
What is the 36'30 line?
This law said that any person who was enslaved that was caught trying to escape needed to be returned.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
When pro and anti-slavery supporters moved to the Kansas and Nebraska territories, this broke out.
What is violence?
John Brown's family believed strongly in this movement, which sought to end slavery once and for all.
What is abolition?
Because Dred Scott moved to one of these, he felt that he should automatically be free.
What is a free state?
This was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise.
What is easing tensions between the North and South?
The Compromise of 1850 was made up of this many main bills.
What are 5 bills?
The term that means the people of Kansas and Nebraska would be able to decide the fate of slavery on their own.
What is popular sovereignty?
John Brown believed that this was necessary to end slavery in the United States.
What is violence?
The name of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the time of the Dred Scott Decision.
Who was Justice Taney?
The Missouri Compromise would eventually be repealed by this 1854 law.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Texas was given this sum of money in exchange for land, which they would use to pay back their debts.
What is $10 million?
This groundbreaking term was one of the nicknames for people who were against slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
What is a freesoiler?
John Brown moved to this place in the 1850s to fight against the practice of slavery.
Where is Kansas?
This is the name of the doctrine (idea) that Dred Scott used to argue for his freedom.
What is, "once free always free?"