Missouri Compromise
This is the year that the Missouri Compromise took place
What is 1820?
At it's peak, Nat Turners rebellion had this many followers
What are 70 followers?
This territories desire for statehood is what brought about this compromise
What is California?
This is the name given to pro-slavery individuals that came from Missouri to turn Kansas to slavery
What are Border Ruffians?
This is a system in which the people vote directly, in this instince, on the issue of slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
This man was responsible for proposing the Missouri Compromise
Who is Henry Clay?
He was a white man who grew up in Ohio and Massachusetts as a fierce abolishionist
Who is John Brown?
This man was responsible for proposing this compromise
Who is Henry Clay?
This system of transportation was one of the main things that brought a need for this compromise
What is the transcontinental railroad?
She is the Author of the book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Missouri wanted to become a slave state. The main issue with this was that it would create an imbalance in this:
What is the Senate/ Congress?
Nat Turner was able to hide from those seeking to capture him for this long
What is 6 weeks?
With this compromise, the area of Washington D.C was forbid to have the slave trade, but this was still allowed
What is Slavery?
This is the belief that the people of the United States had the God given right to conquer as much land as possible.
What is Manifest Destiny?
In the first case, Dred Scott and his wife were ruled to be what
What is free?
The Missouri Compromise line ran through this directional border of the state
What is the Southern Border?
John Brown and his supporters first targeted this federal armory in Virginia
What is Harper's Ferry?
Some say the North won this compromise because California joined as a free state, creating imbalance in the
What is the Senate/ Congress?
This is the number of people believed to have died in "bleeding Kansas", according to our source
What is 55 people?
This was a system of hiding places and paths that 'conductors' used to help slaves escape the south
What is the Underground Railroad?
In order to maintain balance, this state was added to the union to counterbalance the addition of Missouri.
What is Massachusetts?
Nat Turner looked into the sky and saw this, which is said to inspire the night in which he attacked
What is a solar eclipse?
A big part of this compromise for the South was this infamous Act
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
These anti-slavery individuals didn’t oppose slavery because it was immoral, they just did not want large plantations taking up the whole north.
Who are Free Soilers?
Dred Scott was taken to these two states in the North to live with his owner
What are Wisconsin and Illinois?