States' Rights
This idea said that state governments had more power than the federal government.
What is States' Rights
The first enslaved Africans arrived in this Virginia settlement in 1619.
What is Jamestown?
This 1820 agreement admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This group opposed slavery for religious reasons.
Who are the Quakers?
This 1856 conflict in Kansas erupted over the issue of slavery, earning a bloody nickname.
What is “Bloody Kansas”?
The belief in states’ rights relied on this U.S. Constitutional Amendment.
What is the 10th Amendment?
The importation of enslaved Africans to the U.S. was officially banned in this year.
What is 1808?
The Missouri Compromise created this line dividing free and slave territories.
What is the 36°30’ line?
This white abolitionist published The Liberator calling for immediate emancipation.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This violent abolitionist led attacks at Pottawatomie Creek and later at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This economic system in the South was used as a key argument for states’ rights.
What is slavery?
By 1860, these were the only three Western countries that still allowed slavery.
What are Brazil, Cuba, and the United States?
This 1850 agreement let Utah and New Mexico decide on slavery for themselves.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This escaped slave became a famous speaker and author of a powerful narrative.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
In this series of debates, Abraham Lincoln gained national fame while opposing slavery’s expansion.
What are the Lincoln–Douglas Debates?
Supporters of states’ rights believed that this group should be able to decide whether to allow slavery.
Who are the people of each state or territory?
This northern state’s Supreme Court declared slavery illegal in 1783.
What is Massachusetts?
The Compromise of 1850 included this harsh law requiring free states to return escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This escaped slave helped over 300 others escape on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Lincoln’s famous “House Divided” speech said the nation must become all slave or all free — or this would happen.
What is the Union would cease to exist?
This group of states left the Union because they felt the federal government threatened their rights.
What is the Confederacy?
Between 1784 and 1804, these northern states abolished slavery (name two).
What are New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey (any two accepted)?
This 1854 act allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas–Nebraska Act?
This author’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin revealed the evils of slavery and sold 300,000 copies in its first year.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This April 12, 1861 event marked the official beginning of the Civil War.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?