Missouri Compromise
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This idea allowed settlers to vote on slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
He believed violence could help end slavery.
Who is John Brown?
This Republican candidate won the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This state was admitted as a free state as part of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine?
This territory used popular sovereignty to decide slavery.
What is Utah or New Mexico?
This violent conflict occurred in Kansas over slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This federal arsenal was attacked by John Brown and his supporters.
What is Harper's Ferry?
This election result led Southern states to secede.
What is the election of 1860?
This state entered the Union as a slave state to keep the balance of power.
What is Missouri?
This state entered the Union as a free state under the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
This proposal aimed to ban slavery in territories won from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This politician believed compromise could preserve the Union.
Who is Henry Clay?
This state was the first to secede from the union.
What is South Carolina?
This imaginary line, set at 36°30′ latitude, divided free and slave territories.
What is the 36°30′ line?
This compromise temporarily eased sectional tensions.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The Supreme Court case where they ruled enslaved people were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
The man who Lincoln debated against and rose to fame with.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This party was supported by most states that later seceded.
What is the Southern Democratic Party?
This territory was affected by the Missouri Compromise’s rule that slavery would be prohibited north of the 36°30′ line.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
This area banned the slave trade from continuing to take place.
What is Washington D.C.
The Dred Scott Decision state this about Congress concerning slavery in the new territories.
What is they can't ban it?
She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This federal fort was attacked to begin the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?