Slavery Spreads to the South & West
Slavery Debate Heats Up
Slavery Debate Heats Up (2)
2 events push the North and South further apart
Mixed Bag
100
There were this many 'slave states' in 1819.
11
100
These were 3 of the New Territories formed after the war with Mexico ended
Nebraska, Kansas & Utah
100
This slave escaped from Virginia and fled to Boston where he was captured
Anthony Burns
100
This slave, who had lived on 'free-land' took his case to the Supreme Court
Dread Scott
100
Someone who runs away to escape the law.
Fugitive
200
This is the reason the Northerners didn't want Missouri to be a 'slave state'.
1. Didn't want to upset the balance of 'slave' / free states -in Congress 2. Didn't want slavery west of the the Mississippi River
200
The free-spoilers wanted this to happen in the New Territories
Slavery to be banned in all of them
200
President Pierce sent this many soldiers to guard the courthouse in Boston where Abolitionists tried to free a slave held there.
1500 soldiers
200
The Supreme Court denied the slave who claimed freedom because he had lived on free land for these 2 reasons
1. Not a U.S. citizen 2.Living on free land doesn't make you free 3. They declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (therefore land wasn't 'free')
200
A place where weapons are stored
Arsenal
300
This man came up with the 'Missouri Compromise'
Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky
300
The 2 political parties in 1848
Whigs & Democrats
300
These 3 things eventually happened to the slave held in the Boston Courthouse
1. Northerners bought his freedom 2. He went to college 3. Became a minister in Canada.
300
This 'fiery' abolitionist said that 'action instead of talk' was what was needed
John Brown
300
Kansas became known by this name. Why?
Bleeding Kansas - so much blood shed between the those in favour of slavery and those against it.
400
List the 3 things that the Missouri Compromise stated
1. Missouri would be a 'slave state' 2. Maine would be a 'free state' 3. Slavery was banned North of an imaginary line running west from Missouri's southern border
400
This state became the 16th 'free' state under the Compromise of 1850
California
400
The Kansas-Nebraska Act said this about slavery in these territories
Voters in each territory could decide whether or not to allow slavery
400
This well know abolitionist refused to join the 'fiery' abolitionists uprising
Frederick Douglass
400
Abolitionists in the North felt this way about John Brown
He was a hero, who stood up for his rights and beliefs
500
This is the reason many settlers travelled west in the 1800's
Cheap land west of Mississippi / plantation land in the south was no longer productive (over-farmed)
500
The Compromise of 1850 stated that these 2 things would happen to people who helped slaves
1. 6 months in jail 2. $1000 jail
500
Northerners disliked the Kansas-Nebraska Act for this reason
It went against the Missouri Compromise
500
John Brown did this on October 16th, 1859. What happened to him as a result of this?
Carried out a raid on the Arsenal at Harper's Creek. Caught and hung.
500
Southerners reacted this way to John Brown's uprising and the abolitionists reaction to his fate
Angry and outraged at his raid. Annoyed by his 'hero' status with the abolitionists and the attitude of the Northerners about slavery.
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