A Growing Rift
In the North meant that more and more people were employed in industries like manufacturing and trade.
in the South, the economy was mainly centered on agriculture, specifically growing crops like cotton, tobacco, and rice.
What is the North and the South developed different economic systems?
Slavery could have expanded in the territories of the western United States
California was admitted to the Union as a free state, and the slave trade was banned in Washington, D.C.
The federal government did not place any restrictions on slavery in the new territories. Instead, the people of each territory would decide the issue for themselves.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What did their quality of life depended on?
What is who enslaved them and what type of work they were forced to do?
a person who worked to end slavery during the 1700s and 1800s
Who is an abolitionist?
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What was the main reason for the rift between the North and the South?
What is the Expansion of Slavery?
At that time, there were eleven slave states and eleven free states in the Union.
Congress admitted Maine as a free state, and just over a year later, Missouri was admitted as a slave state.
It kept the balance of slave states and free states in the Union.
Congress prohibited slavery in territories north of latitude 36°30´ north, The Missouri southern boarder.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
In 1831, he led an uprising. The uprising he organized lasted for about three days, but in the end, all who took part in his rebellion were executed.
Who was Nat Turner?
a place where weapons and other military equipment are stored
What is an arsenal?
When the slave ceases to perspire, as he often does when taxed beyond his strength, he falls to the ground and becomes entirely helpless.
Who is Solomon Northup?
The devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country
What is sectionalism?
The case began when John Mann, a poor white man, hired an enslaved woman named Lydia from her owner, Elizabeth Jones. Mann abused Lydia, and when she tried to escape, he shot her.
Mann was found guilty and was fined $5.
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that slaveholders had complete authority over their slaves and could not be convicted of crimes against them and slaves should have legal right of protection from persons other than their owners
What is North Carolina v. Mann?
A number of enslaved people organized rebellions.
Acts such as working slowly, becoming suddenly unwell, or “accidentally” breaking tools.
How did enslaved people resist slavery?
holding a position or political office
What is an incumbent?
African Americans could never be U.S. citizens, even when free, and that slavery had to be permitted in all federal territories.
Who is Chief Justice Roger B. Taney?
In 1854, Congress passed a law called the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing settlers, not Congress, to determine whether slavery would be allowed in more territories north of the Missouri Compromise line.
Many people with different opinions on slavery rushed to the Kansas Territory, which was seeking to be admitted to the Union as a state.
Clashes led to some people being tarred and feathered, kidnapped, or even killed. Proslavery supporters set fire to the Free State Hotel, destroyed printing presses, and looted homes and stores.
In response, an abolitionist named John Brown led a group of men to Pottawatomie Creek, where they brutally killed five supporters of slavery.
What is “Bleeding Kansas?"
A black man sued for his freedom, and the lawsuit went all the way to the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that African Americans could never be U.S. citizens, even when free, and that slavery had to be permitted in all federal territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
They expressed the pain of their existence through theses songs.
Most told of the weariness of the slaves and their hope for a better world to come.
They were used to retell narratives about the struggle of biblical figures like Daniel and Moses.
What was the role of Spirituals in the lives of enslaved people?
n. the act of keeping something under control or within limits
What is containment?
Lincoln openly supported freedom and equality for African Americans.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
Congress passed a law allowing settlers, not Congress, to determine whether slavery would be allowed in more territories north of the Missouri Compromise line.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This law made it illegal to bring enslaved people into the country from other countries, though it did not stop the domestic slave trade.
What is the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves.
Led by Charles Deslondes, a group of enslaved people rebelled against plantation owners and marched along the Mississippi River, burning plantation houses. The rebellion was suppressed by federal troops, state militias, and slave patrols. Many rebels were killed, captured, punished, or executed.
What was the German Coast uprising of 1811 in Louisiana?
to formally withdraw membership
What is secede?
“There is no reason in the world why the Negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln?