Missouri Compromise
The year this compromise was passed.
1820
This state was admitted as a free state under the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
This 1854 law created the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The nickname given to Kansas in the mid-1850s because of the violent conflict over slavery there.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The year the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the Dred Scott case.
What is 1857?
This state was admitted as a slave state under the compromise.
What is Missouri?
These two territories were organized under popular sovereignty by the compromise.
What are Utah and New Mexico?
The Illinois senator who authored the act, hoping to organize the territory for a transcontinental railroad.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
These pro-slavery Missourians crossed the border to vote illegally in Kansas elections. Answer:
Who are the Border Ruffians?
Dred Scott sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived in these kinds of territories with his enslaver.
What are free states/territories?
This state was admitted as a free state to keep the balance in the Senate.
What is Maine?
This part of the compromise required citizens in free states to help return escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The principle in the act letting settlers in each territory vote on whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
In May 1856, pro-slavery forces attacked and burned much of this anti-slavery stronghold town in Kansas.
What is Lawrence?
Clue: This Chief Justice wrote the majority opinion declaring Scott could not sue. Answer:
Who is Roger B. Taney?
This latitude line was set as the boundary between future free and slave territories.
What is 36°30′ (the Missouri Compromise Line)?
The slave trade — but not slavery itself — was abolished in this city as part of the deal.
What is Washington, D.C.?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act effectively repealed this earlier compromise by allowing slavery north of 36°30′.
What is the Missouri Compromise (of 1820)?
This abolitionist led the 1856 attack at Pottawatomie Creek, killing five pro-slavery settlers.
Who is John Brown?
Clue: The ruling declared that people of African descent, whether free or enslaved, were not this, and so could not sue in federal court.
What are citizens (U.S. citizens)?
Known as "The Great Compromiser," this Kentucky senator was the chief architect of the deal.
Who is Henry Clay?
After Henry Clay's plan stalled, this Illinois senator broke it into separate bills to get it passed.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
This new political party formed in 1854 largely in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, uniting opponents of slavery's expansion.
What is the Republican Party?
Bleeding Kansas began because this 1854 law let settlers vote on slavery, which brought pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushing into the territory.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The decision also struck down this 1820 law as unconstitutional, saying Congress had no power to ban slavery in the territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?