Missouri Compromise of 1820
This state was admitted as a slave state OR this state was admitted as a free state as part of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Missouri OR Maine?
This state was admitted as a free state under the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required all citizens to assist in the capture and return of these people.
What is escaped or runaway slaves?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for the use of popular sovereignty effectively repealing this previous act.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
He proposed the Missouri Compromise and was known as the "Great Compromiser."
Who is Henry Clay?
The Compromise of 1850 included the abolition of the slave trade in this city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This network intensified efforts to help escaped slaves reach safety in Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This Illinois senator authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
This was the main issue the Missouri Compromise attempted to settle.
What is the expansion of slavery?
This concept allowed Utah and New Mexico to decide on slavery for themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
This was the penalty for aiding escaped slaves under the 1850 law.
What is a fine and/or possible jail time?
This violent conflict erupted as a result of competing pro- and anti-slavery forces in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
These numbers make up the imaginary line that was established to separate future free and slave territories.
What is the 36°30′ (minute) line?
This stricter version of a law angered the North and pleased the South as part of the Compromise.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This former slave and abolitionist openly defied the Fugitive Slave Act and helped others escape.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Although this concept had been previously used in a compromise, this important concept in the Kansas-Nebraska Act let settlers vote on whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This northern group opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories, leading to tension during the compromise.
Who are abolitionists?
With California likely coming in as a free state, and no new slave state to balance the power in the Senate, Southern states began to talk about doing this, something they did in 1860.
What is Secede or Secession ?
This part of "Law and Order" received higher pay for returning alleged slaves rather than freeing them.
What are Judges?
This term describes settlers, many of them from neighboring Missouri, who rushed into Kansas to sway the slavery vote.
What are Border Ruffians?
Abraham Lincoln greeted this abolitionist and author with, “So you’re the little lady who started this great war?” thus acknowledging the novel’s role in the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?