Compromised
This compromise of 1820 made the practice of slavery illegal north of latitude 36°30'.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Within a decade of its publication in 1852, this anti-slavery novel that shocked the nation, had sold 2 million copies.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This was the first state to secede from the union.
Who is South Carolina?
This territory had two governments in 1856.
What is Kansas?
The debate over the growth of this forced labor of African Americans influenced the election of 1852
What is Slavery?
Referring to the Mexican Cession, this stated that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of [the] territory.”
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Abraham Lincoln is said to have called this woman the “little lady who made this big war.”
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
T or F The Confederate States of America formed their own constitution that gave citizens the right to own slaves.
What is True?
This was the act that divided what was left of the Louisiana Purchase in two.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Proposed by Henry Clay, this compromise called for California to enter the Union as a free state, among other conditions.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
He led the raid on Harper’s Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
The seceded states chose this man of Mississippi as the president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
He was the abolitionist who led an attack along the Pottawatomie Creek.
Who is John Brown?
This law made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This party was formed in 1854 and was against the spread of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
T or F Douglas and Lincoln ran against each other in the senatorial election in Indiana.
What is False? They ran in Illinois.
He was the senator from Massachusetts who spoke out against the pro-slavery population of Kansas.
Who is Charles Sumner?
A debate began throughout the nation after this slave sued for his freedom in 1846.
Who is Dred Scott?
This Illinois senator defeated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 election.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Lost the Illinois senate election in 1858.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This man beat a senator unconscious with a cane.
Who is Preston Brooks?
This was the name for the eruption of violence that destroyed a Kansas town.
What is the Sack of Lawerence?