Vocabulary
The group with the most people has the most votes (and therefore the most power).
Majority Rule
This person was a Republican who won the presidential Election of 1860 by appealing to multiple social groups.
Abraham Lincoln
This law allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on the issue of slavery for themselves.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Violence erupted in 1856 because people were voting to decide whether slavery would be allowed in Kansas.
Bleeding Kansas
In the South, the economy was based on this.
Agriculture or farming
The privileges that individuals are entitled to even though they are not in the majority group.
Minority rights
The last enslaved person to be returned to Southern slavery from Boston under the Fugitive Slave Act.
Anthony Burns
This compromise admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to keep the balance in Congress.
Missouri Compromise
In 1859, a man led 18 followers to attack a government weapons station in an attempt to start a slave revolt.
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
In the North, the economy was based on this.
Industry or factories
People who demanded the immediate freeing of all enslaved people.
Abolitionists
This person was an enslaved man who moved into free territories and sued his master for his freedom, resulting in a Supreme Court case.
Dred Scott
This law required people in the North to help return runaway enslaved people to the South or face imprisonment.
Fugitive Slave Act
This presidential election's main issues included slavery, tariffs, homesteads, and railroads.
Election of 1860
TRUE or FALSE: The majority of Southerners owned enslaved people.
FALSE.
Though the majority of Southerners supported slavery, only 1/4 of Southerners owned enslaved people.
The political principle that says the will of the people must decide. This is how people justified voting on slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
This person tried to lead a slave revolt by violently attacking the government's weapons station in Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
John Brown
This compromise banned slavery in Washington D.C. and admitted California as a free state, while allowing the territories of New Mexico and Utah to decide on slavery for themselves.
Compromise of 1850
A series of debates in 1858 where Abraham Lincoln delivered his "House Divided" speech.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Declaration of Independence
French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville worried of the "______ of the majority," meaning that the majority can trample on the rights of the minority.
Tyranny
This person wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act and ran against Abraham Lincoln in the Election of 1860.
Stephen Douglas
This compromise drew an imaginary line at the 36"30 latitude line in the Western territories and banned slavery north of that line.
Missouri Compromise
In the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that Dred Scott and other African-Americas, free or enslaved, could never be what?
Citizens
This religious movement stressed personal responsibility and made more people see slavery as a sin.
Second Great Awakening