Missouri Compromise And Its Results
This is one of the most significant revolts against slavery.
What was Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Slaves who escaped slavery were often helped by sympathetic people in the north. This was dangerous for both the escaped slaves and the northerners helping them because the escaped slaves were considered fugitives.
This state was going to go to the North as a free state due to the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
In the Compromise of 1850, California was deemed to be a Northern State and therefore a free state.
These two territories were established by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
The President elected in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln spent 8 years in Legislature before taking on the role of President.
This person delivered the court ruling on the Dred Scott Case on March 6, 1857.
Who is Chief Justice Taney?
This state offered up to $5,000 in reward to the arrest of any person "who shall utter, publish, or circulate" abolitionist ideas.
What is Mississipi?
Many states tried to keep away abolitionist ideas, this is one of the ways they did that.
In the year 1852, this book came out starring an enslaved man.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe was an instant success in the North because it showed the horrors of slavery.
In this year, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed.
When was 1854?
The political party Abraham Lincoln affiliated himself with.
What is the Republican Party?
Abraham Lincoln was the first President who was in the Republican Party.
This person believed that the government should not interfere with slavery and therefore slavery should be legal.
Who was Chief Justice Taney?
Chief Justice Taney was the Chief Justice in Congress. He supported slavery.
This person proposed making a Constitutional Amendment in which nobody could be born into slavery after the year 1842.
John Quincy Adams.
He proposed this idea but was eventually denied by Congress due to The Gag Rule.
This man created the Compromise Of 1850.
Who was Senator Henry Clay?
This man created the first draft of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who was Senator Stephen A. Douglas?
The Northern Democratic President-Elect
Who was Stephen Douglas?
The Democratic Party was divided between the North and South during the election of 1860.
In this court case, a slave went to a free state for a portion of time, before going back to a slave state. He brought his case to the Supreme Court to argue his case.
What was the Dred Scott Court Case?
An enslaved man, Dred Scott, argued that he should be free because he lived in a free state for a period of time.
In 1836, Congress made this rule so that Congress could no longer make decisions about slavery.
What is The Gag Rule?
Congress made this rule because they were flooded with papers from abolitionists asking for a ban on slavery.
Because of the Fugitive Slave Act, many slaves tried to escape the South all the way to this place, instead of risking being caught even though they escaped slavery in the South.
What is Canada?
Canada was a free country, so many slaves went all the way to Canada on their road to freedom.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act abolished this Compromise.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act destroyed the Missouri Compromise by leaving it up to the settlers on wether or not they wanted slavery in those territories.
The Southern Democratic-Elect
Who was John C. Breckinridge?
The Democratic Party was divided between the North and South during the election of 1860.
Chief Justice Taney used this amendment to argue against the government being able to control slavery.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Chief Justice Taney argued that slaves were property and therefore could not be taken by the government due to the fifth amendment.
This is how Congress created a line that divided free and slave states.
Why is the 36-degree, 30' North latitude line?
Congress used this latitude line to create an easy way to identify a dividing line.
Because the Northerners did not support the Fugitive Slave Act, although tens of thousands of slaves escaped to the North, only about this many slaves were caught and returned to the South, which infuriated slave-owners.
Only about 300 slaves were captured.
Despite the legal risk, many Northerners did not return escaped slaves to the South.
On this day, pro-slavery protesters flooded into Kansas and burnt down a hotel, threw an anti-slavery newspaper printing press into a river, and looted several homes.
When was May 21, 1856?
Pro-slavery people were so enraged by the Kansas-Nebraska Act that they held a violent protest.
This person was not on the voting ballot in ten southern states.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Southerners despised Lincoln because he wanted to abolish slavery.
These people were not at all happy with the Dred Scott Court Case.
Hint: Northerners or Southerners
Who were the Northerners?
The Northerners were enraged by the decision because the Supreme Court decided that because Dred Scott was a slave, he could not even bring his case to the Supreme Court because he was not considered a citizen.