In 1854, Congress passed a law that allowed settlers in these territories to decide for themselves what to do about slavery, a concept known as popular sovereignty. What territories were these?
Kansas and Nebraska
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to settle what problem?
Slavery
What was the sentiment (or feeling) about slavery in the North?
Against it.
Who was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a rebellion at Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
Who "rode" on the Underground Railroad?
Runaway slaves.
Where did the workforce for the new factories in the North come from?
Immigrants
This event led directly to North Carolina seceding from the Union
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln
This person started the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
The Courts ruled to not free Dred Scott based on what determination?
He was not a citizen, therefore not protected by the Constitution
This invention led to a increase in the Cotton Industry and thus a renewed need for slaves
The Cotton Gin
This law, passed in 1820, established Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also created an invisible line across the US; north of the line would be free, south would be slave.
The Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820.
Which event would have made the South the happiest-the writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Brown's Raid, or the Dred Scott Decision? Why?
Dred Scott. Now slave owners could take their slaves ANYWHERE they wanted as slaves were considered PROPERTY.