Compromises and Expansion
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Law requiring escaped enslaved people to be returned.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Escaped enslaved person who became a famous speaker and writer.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
Secret network that helped enslaved people escape.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Republican candidate who won the election.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This state's admission as a free state upset the balance between the North and South.
Letting people vote on slavery in their territory.
What is popular sovereignty?
Led escaped enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Violent conflict in Kansas over slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Lincoln's belief about slavery.
What is stopping the spread of slavery?
This compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act and dealt with California.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The act that led to violence in Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Wrote a book that showed the horrors of slavery (Uncle Tom's Cabin).
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
What is the Caning of Charles Sumner?
The number of Southern states Lincoln won.
What is zero?
This act allowed territories to decide on slavery by voting.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The act of leaving the Union.
What secession?
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
What is slavery/popular sovereignty?
What Southern states did after Lincoln was elected.
What is secede?
This factor made slavery impossible to ignore as the country grew westward.
What is US expansion?
Supreme Court case that said enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Movement dedicated to ending slavery.
What is the abolitionist movement?
This raid increased Southern fears of rebellion.
First state to leave the Union.
What is South Carolina?