Vocab
Someone who supports banning slavery and abolishing it
What is Abolition?
How many parts are involved in the Compromise of 1850?
four parts
Who was the Great Compromiser ?
_____________ was admitted as a free state in the Missouri Compromise of 1820
What is Maine?
loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole
What is Sectionalism?
Violent clash between abolitionists and pro-slavery supporters over
the right to participate in slavery within Kansas
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Man who sued for his freedom on the grounds he was in free territory
Who is Dred Scott?
____________________ was admitted as a free state as a part of the Compromise of 1850
California
All political power is vested in and derived from the people
What is Popular Sovereignty?
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act repeal (get rid of)
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
This woman wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel that helped Americans understand the horrors of slavery
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The slave trade was banned in _______________________, as part of the Compromise of 1850.
Washington DC
admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.
Missouri Compromise 1820
Controversial Supreme Court case that stated free and enslaved people are NOT citizens
What is Dred Scott v Sanford?
This abolitionist saw slavery as America's deadliest sin and targeted plantations and slave owners.
Tried to arm free and enslaved Americans to start a rebellion, was arrested and executed for his crimes
Who is John Brown?
John Brown was an ___________________
Abolitionist?
What economic institution caused the civil war to happen?
slavery
The act allowed any slaveholder to capture a suspected freedom seeker and bring that person before a judge.
Law that targeted free and enslaved Black americans
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What state senator created and wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The north had ______________ and the south had ________________
(think economies, exports main mode of moneymaking)
Factories + Slavery