Time to Compromise
Under this compromise, enslaved people were counted as this fraction of a person for determining a state's representation in Congress.
What is three-fifths?
This system of secret routes and safe houses helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This movement worked to end slavery in the United States.
What is the abolition movement?
The violent clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas became known as this.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
This compromise temporarily settled the dispute over slavery’s expansion by establishing a geographic line between free and slave territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
At these public events, enslaved people were inspected, separated from their families, and sold to the highest bidder.
What are slave auctions?
In 1856, this radical abolitionist led a violent attack on pro-slavery settlers in Kansas, killing five men in retaliation for the sacking of Lawrence.
Who is John Brown?
The belief that Americans were meant to expand across the continent was known as this.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Compromise of 1850 allowed this territory to enter as a free state.
What is California?
This term describes the horrific voyage that enslaved Africans were forced to endure across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This formerly enslaved man escaped from slavery in Maryland, became one of the most powerful voices of the abolitionist movement, and published an influential anti-slavery newspaper called The North Star, along with multiple autobiographies.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Before race-based slavery became widespread in the American colonies, this system required people to work for a set number of years to pay off debts or earn passage to the colonies.
What is indentured servitude?
Under the Compromise of 1850, these two territories would be allowed to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.
What are Utah and New Mexico?
As part of the Compromise of 1850, this law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers, even if they were found in free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This formerly enslaved woman helped many enslaved people escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad and became known as the “Moses of her people.”
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This term, first used by South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun in the early 19th century, described the growing conflict between different regions of the United States.
What is sectionalism?
Championed by Senator Stephen A. Douglas, this principle stated that the people living in a territory should determine for themselves whether slavery would be permitted there
What is popular sovereignty?
This invention by Eli Whitney greatly increased the demand for enslaved labor in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This free Black man was kidnapped in 1841, sold into slavery, and later wrote a memoir about his 12 years in bondage.
Who is Solomon Northup?
This nickname was given to pro-slavery men from Missouri who crossed into Kansas to illegally vote in elections and influence whether Kansas would allow slavery.
Who are border ruffians?