Compromises/laws
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
A book published in 1850 that spread a antislavery ideas. It sold over a million copies in the United States
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who is John Brown?
The pride someone feels for part of a nation
What is sectionalism?
Kansas and Nebraska became states and the issue of slavery was decided by popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Three years of violence in Kansas that included the Pottawatomie Massacre
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The pride someone feels for the entire nation
What is nationalism?
Maine was entered as a free state and Missouri was entered as a free state. There would be no slavery allowed North of the 36'30 line on Missouri's Southern border
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What is the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
An Illinois senator who debated with Abraham Lincoln and believed slavery should be decided by popular sovereignty
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The idea that the people should have political authority (the people can vote)
What is popular sovereignty?
California was entered as a free state and a stricter, more aggressive Fugitive Slave Law was passed
What is the Compromise of 1850?
An attack on a US government arsenal in Virginia where 18 men were killed
What is the Raid on Harpers Ferry? (What is John Brown's Raid?)
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The term for people who were anti-slavery and wanted slavery to end
The Supreme Court decision that said African Americans were not citizens and had no rights
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
John Brown took a group of followers to a small town in Kansas and killed 5 proslavery people
What is the Pottawattamie Massacre?
She was a former slave and one of the biggest supporters and members of the Underground Railroad, leading over 70 people to freedom
Who is Harriet Tubman?
A political group primarily in the North that wanted to stop the spread of slavery
What is the Republican Party?