Compromises
This compromise kept a balance between free states and slave states by making Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This future president did not want slavery to spread into new territories.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This law forced people in the North and South to help return escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This compromise made California a free state and created a stronger Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This man debated Abraham Lincoln and supported popular sovereignty.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This book showed the cruelty of slavery and made many Northerners more against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This idea allowed settlers in a territory to vote on whether slavery would be allowed.
What is popular sovereignty?
This was the main disagreement between Lincoln and Douglas during their debates.
What is whether slavery should spread into the territories?
This Supreme Court decision said Dred Scott was not a citizen and that Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This law overturned part of the Missouri Compromise and allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide slavery by popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This event made many Southern states fear that slavery would not be allowed to spread.
What is Lincoln’s election?
This abolitionist attacked Harpers Ferry because he wanted enslaved people to rebel against slavery.
Who is John Brown?
These tried to solve the slavery problem, but they only delayed the conflict because the North and South still disagreed about slavery.
What were the compromises before the Civil War? such as the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, or Kansas-Nebraska Act.
This was the action Southern states took after Lincoln was elected because they believed he was a threat to their way of life.
What is secession?
This is the larger problem that connected the Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott decision, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and secession.
What is the growing conflict over slavery?