Key People
This enslaved man sued for his freedom after living in free territory.
Who is Dred Scott?
This 1854 law allowed territories to vote on slavery.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
This issue caused the most conflict between North and South.
What is slavery?
These were a series of debates held in Illinois in 1858.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
This was the state where Harpers Ferry was located.
What is Virginia?
This Illinois senator supported popular sovereignty and was nicknamed the Little Giant.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This Supreme Court case said African Americans were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
These were violent clashes in Kansas over slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This was the main issue debated between Lincoln and Douglas.
What is slavery?
Brown wanted to start this with his raid.
What is a slave rebellion?
this Republican candidate debated Douglas in 1858.
Who is Abe Lincoln?
This compromise originally banned slavery north of 36°30′.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This region supported slavery and agriculture.
What is the South?
Lincoln believed slavery should not do this.
What is spread into new territories?
This happened to John Brown after the raid.
What is he was captured and executed?
This Chief Justice wrote the Dred Scott decision.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
This idea let people vote on slavery in territories.
What is popular sovereignty?
This violent event during Bleeding Kansas involved John Brown and his followers killing five pro-slavery men in retaliation for earlier attacks.
What is the Pottawatomie Massacre?
Douglas believed this group should decide the issue of slavery.
Who are the people in each territory?
Southerners reacted with this feeling after Harpers Ferry.
What is fear of Northern attacks or conspiracies?
This abolitionist led a violent raid in Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
This act angered many Northerners by forcing them to help return escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
This term describes loyalty to one region over the whole country.
What is sectionalism?
This speech warned the nation could not remain divided.
What is the “House Divided” speech?
Many Northerners felt this about Brown’s actions.
What is they opposed his violence but supported his cause?