Land Laws
This ordinance allowed Michigan to enter as a free state.
What is The Northwest Ordinance?
Name at least 1 of the Republican Party's main beliefs from around 1860?
What is against expanding slavery; preserve the Union?
The name of people who are strongly against slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
I wrote a book called Uncle Tom's Cabin that showed the evils of slavery
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This compromise over land made the Fugitive Slave Act stronger to please the South.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The Compromise of 1850 allowed this territory to enter as a free state.
What is California?
When the South officially left the Union, they did this.
What is secede?
I am an extreme abolitionist who murdered Southerners in Kansas and attempted to start a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
I supported the idea that each state can decide which federal laws to obey.
Who is John C. Calhoun, South Carolina
According to this court case, slaves were considered protected "property" that could not be taken away.
What is the Dred Scott case?
This act let the people vote to see if the territories would be free or slave, and created a "bloody" situation.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
I'm a former slave who became a presidential advisor and spoke out on behalf of poor people and the rights of women, immigrants, and Native Americans.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 have in common?
What is attempts to preserve the Union?
Under this act, runaway slaves did not get a trial by jury, couldn't testify in court, and any without papers could be captured and sent to slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Term for how states were divided before the Civil War into agricultural pro-slavery south and industrial anti-slavery north.
What is sectionalism?
This was a planned attack on a federal arsenal with the attempt to arm slaves and start a slave rebellion.
What is Harper's Ferry?
I am the President of the United States when the Civil War starts.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The South was upset about Lincoln's election in 1860 because he belonged to this political party.
What is the Republican Party?
The Compromise of 1850 created this method of deciding if a territory would become a free or slave state.
What is popular sovereignty?
Term that means 'unifying the country.'
What is nationalism?
If a person aided a runaway slave, their punishment was this.
What is a large fine and potential jail time?
I am the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The reason slavery in the US was a paradox (a contradiction)
What is was against the American ideals of freedom and equality in the Constitution?