Compromises and Acts
This act was created to enforce people to return escaped slaves to their owners?
What were the Fugitive slave acts?
This person was one of the main “conductors” on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This Was one of the major topics in the election of 1860, as well as the start of the civil war.
What is slavery?
These were two major destinations for slaves to go to using the Underground Railroad.
Canada and free states.
This region was pro-slavery because of all of the agricultural work
The southern states.
This compromise allowed popular sovereignty and repealed the Missouri compromise.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This person was elected president in 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This group of people was strongly against slavery.
What were the abolitionists?
This territory was the first to secede from the union
South Carolina
This book convinced many people in the North that slavery was wrong.
What is the novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin?”
This compromise was created to stop northern states from stopping the expansion of slavery.
What was the Missouri Compromise
This person was the runner up in the election of 1860.
Who is John C. Breckinridge?
What was Jefferson Davis the president of?
The Confederate States of America.
What territories started popular sovereignty?
Kansas and Nebraska
This region had a larger population for the House of Representative.
The northern states.
A compromise that consisted of five different bills.
What was the compromise of 1850?
Who started a rebellion at Harpers Ferry because of slavery.
Who is John brown?
These were the four candidates in the election of 1860.
Who is Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell?
What state was Abraham Lincoln born in?
Kentucky
This made it difficult to vote for Lincoln in the south.
Ten states weren’t given Lincoln’s name during the election.
This case ruled that a slave in one state could not be free in another state.
What is the Dred Scott case?
This person was originally a slave and bought his own freedom.
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
Why did lincoln disagree with secession?
Lincoln said “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
This states was admitted as a free state because of the compromise of 1850.
California.
This state was the only state in the north to own slaves by 1850.
New Jersey.