WHO DAT?!
A man born into slavery that escaped and became one of the most well known abolitionist
Fredrick Douglas
What was the big issue on California becoming a state? What were people wanting?
Decide whether it would be a free or slave state.
Mess up the balance.
True or False.
Northerners did not support John Brown and his actions.
False.
South Carolina senator who opposed the Compromise of 1850.
John C. Calhoun
A man who ran for president who argued against the spread of slavery throughout the nation.
Abraham Lincoln
A man who proposed that slavery in the territories of Nebraska and Kansas be decided by popular sovereignty.
Stephen Douglas
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
How did California enter the Union?
HINT: there was something "compromised"
Compromise of 1850
There was a debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. What was Lincoln's view on slavery?
He wanted territories to be free from slavery
Harriet Stowe wrote a book called Uncle Tom's Cabin. Southerners did not like the book because they said it was misleading information. This is called what?
Propaganda
The man who said that Congress didn't have the power to prohibit slavery in any territory.
Roger Taney
This man proposed that slavery be banned in all territory that might become part of the US as the result of the Mexican-American War. What was this proposal called?
HINT: the answer is his name
Wilmot Proviso
When California requested to join the Union, what would it have done?
Gave free states an edge over slave states
How many states seceded from the Union and what did they rename themselves?
7 states
Confederate States of America
People would have a voice in the decisions made rather than representatives deciding. This is known as _______ _______ .
Popular Sovereignty
The man who planned to raise an army and free people who were enslaved in the South, but was caught and later hanged for his actions.
John Brown
What TWO things did Roger Taney point out in the Dred Scott decision?
African Americans were not citizens and that slaves were property.
What fort did Lincoln not want to give up that the US ended up surrendering?
Fort Sumter
The Wilmot Proviso was a compromise that would ban slavery in the new territory that was coming to them. What was the outcome of this?
Whigs and Democrats formed the Free Soil Party.
The land won from Mexico was still being decided on whether there would be slavery or not.
Who is the man who lead a raid on US army weapons stored at Harpers Ferry.
John Brown
John C. Calhoun
What affect did it have on the nation once Abraham Lincoln took office?
Southern states felt that they didn't have a voice.
States began to secede.
What were the results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Bloodshed in the Senate
Two opposing governments
Settlers deciding on to have or not have slavery
There were things that led up to the Civil War. What were they?
Lincoln elected president.
7 southern states seceded.
Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter.
HINT: a particular group he was speaking about
The Southerners whose states had seceded from the Union