Slave state/free state compromises
Who was known as the Great Compromiser for helping the North and South compromise?
Henry Clay of Kentucky
Second Great Awakening
Dred Scott vs. Sandford 1857
First state to secede after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860
South Carolina
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Which compromise kept the balance of free states and slave states by adding Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state?
Missouri Compromise of 1820
He escaped slavery and became a best-selling author and well-known anti-slavery speaker.
Frederick Douglass
This was the trigger for 11 southern states to secede and for the Civil War.
election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860
Total number of states in the Confederate States of America
11
Two reasons the USA did not annex Texas when it first became independent of Mexico
It was a slave state and Mexico would get mad.
Which slave state/free state compromise led to a virtual civil war in Kansas?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
She escaped slavery and then helped other slaves escape by working with the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Political party that wanted to stop the spread of slavery into the western territories.
Republican Party
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi
Pennsylvania congressman who wanted to prohibit slavery in any land taken from Mexico
David Wilmot
Which slave state/free state compromise was triggered by California's application for statehood?
Compromise of 1850
These sisters grew up on a slave plantation in Charleston before they became abolitionists.
Under this law, northerners had to return runaway slaves and anyone who helped a slave escape could face a fine or jail time.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Greatest military leader of the Confederate States of America
Robert E. Lee
Slave trade was banned where under the Compromise of 1850?
Washington, D.C.
What was given to make the South happy as part of the Compromise of 1850?
the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
This abolitionist killed pro-slavery people in Kansas and tried to take over a gun warehouse in Virginia.
John Brown
Free Soil position
Issue that led to Civil War
slavery
What southern states kept threatening to do whenever the issue of extending slavery came up
Secede, or pull out of the USA