The Compromises
This compromise admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state, and created the 36/30 line
What is The Missouri Compromise?
These people advocated for the end of slavery.
What are abolitionists?
The election of this man was the final straw for the South in the decision to leave the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Enslaved people were taken from this continent.
What is Africa?
This compromise allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
A child born into slavery inherited the slave status of this parent.
Who is the mother?
This man believed violence was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States, famously leading a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry
Who is John Brown?
Daily DOuble
Differing from enslaved people, these were workers who were sentenced to work a certain amount of time without pay.
Who are indentured servants?
This Compromise allowed New Mexico and Utah to vote on the issue of slavery, admitting California as a free state and strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
The Compromise of 1850.
DAILY DOUBLE
A law passed in 1850 that required all citizens, even those in free states, to help return runaway enslaved people to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This man was an escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker, a leader in the abolitionist movement.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
This was the transportation by slave traders of millions of enslaved African people to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries, primarily to work on plantations
What is The Transatlantic Slave Trade?
DAILY DOUBLE
This concept allows people to vote on an issue themselves. It's how the issue of slavery was decided in Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska.
What is popular sovereignty?
A set of laws enacted in the early 18th century to regulate interactions between slaves and citizens of the colony.
What is the 1705 Virginia Slave Cove?
This man believed in Popular Sovereignty and was the main opponent to Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This theory of the biblical story of Noah and his son Ham was used to justify the enslavement of people of African descent, claiming that God had sentenced them to be servants.
What is Curse Theory?
Violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements in a certain territory between 1854 and 1861
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This armed rebellion in 1676 against William Berkeley united black and white servants. The resulting punishment was laws separating White and Black settlers.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
An enslaved man who led a violent slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
The names of the courts that were created and provided separate justice for slaves.
Courts of Oyer and Terminer.