Slavery & Expansion
After this acquisition, many argued that it could lead to future conflict if slavery expanded as we did.
Louisiana Purchase
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed the residents of a territory to decide if their new state would become "free" or "slave". This is known as...?
Popular Sovereignty
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown.
Abolitionists
Suffrage cannot be denied because of a person’s race, color, or previous condition of servitude .
15th Amendment
Can't read, can't vote
Literacy Test
Agreement that kept the balance of power in the Senate and established the 36 30' line.
Compromise of 1820, aka Missouri Compromise
Event known for cross border battles due to popular sovereignty. Someone got a band-aid?
Bleeding Kansas
Winner of the election of 1860, his winning began the secession of southern states.
Abraham Lincoln
Issued on January 1, 1863, President Lincoln freed slaves where?
In rebelling states
Most African-American males couldn't pay the poll tax to vote because they were tied to the land again working as a....?
Sharecropper
The Compromise of 1850 allowed this state in as a "free" state....golden.
California
The first state to separate from the Union upon Lincoln's election.
South Carolina
Harriet Tubman led numerous trips for escaping slaves on this secretive transportation route.
Underground Railroad
Abolitionist leaders created this organization to aid newly freed people with land to start a new life.
Freedmen's Bureau
Laws passed to separate the races were often referred to as these kind of laws...
Jim Crow Laws
The Compromise also gave the South something. It passed this law which made it more difficult for runaway slaves and anyone the aided them.
Fugitive Slave Act
He led a cross border attack into Missouri and killed several pro-slavery people due to their interfering in Kansas.
John Brown
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book that divided the North and South even further over the issue of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery
General name for laws made by southern states that denied blacks their newly found freedoms.
Black Codes
Fictitious name for the "line" that separated the North from the South.
Mason-Dixon Line
John Brown led a raid in this western Virginia town to seize an arsenal and create open rebellion by arming those that were enslaved.
Harper's Ferry
He sued for his freedom in 1857. In return, the Supreme Court stated that enslaved people aren't citizens and in fact are property - which can't be denied anywhere.
Dred Scott
Guarantees equal protection of the laws and due process to all people.
14th Amendment
Agreement to pull Federal troops from the South ended Reconstruction and protection for newly freed people.
Compromise 0f 1877