Missouri Compromise
Every state north of Missouri would be...
What is free states?
This state presented a challenge to the Missouri Compromise because it was split along the dividing line between free and slave states
What is California?
This person mailed themself to freedom
Who is Henry Box Brown?
The South's main cash crop
What is cotton?
This state joined at the same time as Kansas
What is Nebraska?
Every state south of Missouri would be admitted to the union as this type of state
What is a slave state?
Under the Compromise of 1850, California would be admitted to the union as this type of state
What is a free state?
The name given to the secret network of abolitionists who helped enslaved people escape
What is the Underground Railroad?
This man sued for his freedom because he was enslaved in a free state, but the Supreme Court ruled against him
Who is Dred Scott?
The idea that each state should be able to vote on if slavery would be legal there or not
What is popular sovereignty?
This state was admitted to the union at the same time as Missouri
What is Maine?
This law required people to help catch enslaved people seeking freedom
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
One of Frederick Douglass's most famous speeches
What to the Slave is the 4th of July
This abolitionist senator was brutally attacked by a southern senator for speaking out against slavery
Who is Charles Sumner
This is the number of state governments that Kansas ended up with as a result of popular sovereignty (leading to Bleeding Kansas)
What is two state governments?
This senator came up with the Missouri Compromise
Who is Henry Clay?
The Compromise of 1850 affected Washington DC by doing this
What is banning the slave trade there?
This enslaved person led a rebellion that killed around 50 white people
Who is Nat Turner?
How much money did judges receive for each enslaved person seeking freedom they sent back south?
What is $10?
This senator proposed the idea of popular sovereignty
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This compromise eventually replaced the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This territory was south of Missouri, but had laws against enslaving people (contributed to the idea that they needed the Compromise of 1850)
What is New Mexico?
Harriet Tubman's birth name (double points if you ALSO get her nickname)
Who is Araminta Ross (Minty)
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This man's decision in the Dred Scott case opened the door for slavery to be practiced EVERYWHERE in the US, including free states
Who is Roger Taney?
What John Brown did in Kansas
What is murder 5 pro-slavery neighbors?