Pre- Civil War Compromises
Area from the Louisiana Purchase is granted Popular Sovereignty (the right of a state to decide whether slavery is legal).
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1954?
This book about the harsh, cruel life of a slave sparked outrage in the North and led many people to support the anti-slavery cause.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A suffragist who campaigned for equality for all, famously said " Ain't I a woman"
Who was Sojourner Truth?
This claiming of new lands that had steep costs for many Black and Indigenous Americans
What is the Westward Expansion?
Formerly enslaved person who wrote a narrative of their life in bondage.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Someone who flees or escapes illegally
What is a fugitive?
the right of people to make political decisions for themselves; for example to vote whether or not to permit slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
This act required people to return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
President Andrew Jackson pushes forward a law in Congress allowing the United States to make treaties with Indigenous tribes, to remove them from their lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Members of the Cherokee Nation sign away Cherokee lands without the consent of their people.
What is the Treaty of Echota?
This enslaved woman disgused herself as a white man and traveled with her enslaved husband, pretending to be his enslaver as they fled to freedom in the North.
Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery people flow into a territory to influence the popular sovereignty vote.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The act of taking freedom into your own hands
What is self-emancipation?
This amendment divided the suffrage movement when black men were given the right to vote and white women were not.
What is the 15th amendment?
This was the journey traveled by Indigenous tribes who were removed from their ancestral homelands.
What is the Trail of Tears?
They do not want to leave the union, but they believe in slavery.
What are border states?
This enslaved woman was enslaved by George Washington until she self-emanciptaed to avoid being given away and returned to the South.
Who is Ona Judge?
An imaginary line is drawn that determines all future states below the line will be slave states, and all future states above the line will be free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
An Abolitionist who beleived slavery would only end if violently forced
Who is John Brown?
A suffragist who had a coin created in her honor.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
Indigenous Floridians fight to maintain their lands.
What is the Second Seminole War?
An abolitionist Quaker who was morally opposed to enslavement.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison
This free black man was kidnapped from the North and sold into slavery in the South for 12 years beforehe was able to prove his freedom and set free.
Who is Solomon Northup?
Mexican Cession territory is granted Popular Sovereignty, and slavery is outlawed in the nations capital.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
In this Supreme Court case, a slave sued for his freedom. He lost the case, with the Supreme Court ruling that slaves are considered personal property.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
A suffragist worked with Susan B Anthony to found the NSWA.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
A court case where it was determined that indigenous people could not be removed from their lands against their will., though President Andrew Jackson illegally refused to enforce the ruling.
What is Worcester vs. Georgia?
This present day state was formerly known as Indian Territory, and was the location to which Indigenous Americans were removed when their lands were taken from them.
What is Oklahoma?
States believed they could ignore laws they disagreed with
What is nullification?