Slavery & Expansion
This is the number of enslaved people living in the U.S. when Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860.
What is 4 million?
These two states entered the Union under the Missouri Compromise.
What are Missouri and Maine?
These religious revivalists claimed slavery was a sin in the eyes of God.
Who were leaders of the Second Great Awakening?
Dred Scott sued for freedom after living in this type of territory.
What is a free territory (Wisconsin)?
He predicted the U.S. could not remain “half slave and half free.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This year marks the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia.
What is 1619?
This line of latitude was the dividing line for slavery in the Louisiana Territory under the Missouri Compromise.
What is 36°30′?
In 1836, Congress enacted this rule to silence debate about slavery.
What is the gag rule?
According to the Supreme Court, African Americans had no rights to do this in federal court.
What is sue?
This violent abolitionist led a failed 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This ordinance in 1787 banned slavery north of the Ohio River.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This man said the Missouri Compromise was better than no compromise at all.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This enslaved preacher led a violent 1831 revolt in Virginia.
Who is Nat Turner?
This Chief Justice wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott case.
Who is Roger Taney?
In the election of 1860, this new party ran Abraham Lincoln.
What is the Republican Party?
Northerners objected to Missouri's admission as a slave state because it would upset this delicate balance in Congress.
What is the balance between free states and slave states in the Senate?
This was the key reason Southerners didn’t want free states to outnumber slave states in the Senate.
What is fear of losing power to end slavery through legislation?
This abolitionist novel stirred anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Senator Stephen Douglas used this idea to argue that territories could effectively reject slavery despite the Dred Scott decision.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
In his inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln stated that the Union was perpetual and that he had no intention of interfering with slavery where it already existed, but he firmly opposed this act by the Southern states.
What is secession?
Southerners argued that Congress banning slavery in Missouri would violate this principle.
What is states’ rights?
This 1850 agreement allowed California to enter as a free state, ended slave trade in D.C., and enacted a stricter Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
In 1854, this document urged President Pierce to seize Cuba from Spain, enraging Northerners.
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
The Supreme Court ruled Congress could not ban slavery in the territories, striking down this previous compromise.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This state's secession after Lincoln’s election sparked a wave of departures from the Union, leading to the formation of the Confederacy.
What is South Carolina?