Name that Compromise
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Slavery / Anti Slavery
Politics
Immediate Causes of War
100

After this compromise the number of free and slave states went from 11 each to 12 each 

Missouri Compromise 

100

What was the main reason for these compromises? What changed in the nation?

New land from Manifest Destiny / the Mexican American War 

100

Effect of Fugitive Slave Law on Abolition 

Abolitionists more resolved in their fight; The act  brought the subject of slavery before the nation.

 Many who had previously been ambivalent about slavery now took a definitive stance against the institution. 

100

The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established second / third generations against those of immigrants / BIPOC people.

Nativism 

100

What did  John Brown 

Fought in Bleeding Kansas

1859, he led a small band of followers, including his four sons and some formerly enslaved people, to attack the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry to use guns from the arsenal to arm Virginia’s enslaved African Americans, whom he expected to rise up in revolt. 

The Souths Worst Nightmare 

200

This compromise brought Maine in as a free state 

Missouri Compromise 

200

He is mostly responsible for the the Compromise of at850 

Henry Clay 

200

Results of Taney's Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) decision 

Black Americans could not be considered citizens and Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories of the United States

thus the compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional .

200

A short-lived political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party: opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories 

The Free Soil Party 

200

Why did Lincoln win the presidency in 1860? 

4 parties divided the country, allowing Lincoln to win with only 39% of the votes. 

300

California enters  as a free state 

Compromise of 1850

300

What is Popular Sovereignty?

People IN that state / territory decide if there state will be a free or a slave state 

300

What was the stance of Republicans at this time concerning slavery? 

willing to accept slavery where it existed but opposed further expansion to the territories / states 

300

Who made up most of the Know Nothing Party 

Nativists 

300

Why did the south seceded? 

The south FALSELY believed Lincoln and the Republicans would work to end slavery in the south.

To protect their state's rights of slavery 

400

The Year of the Missouri Compromise 

1820

400

In the compromise of 1850, what happened to D.C?

The slave trade, but not slavery, was banned in D.C 

400

What were some effects of the Fugitive Slave Act on Black Americans 

Some fled, around 20,000 to Canada 

Some stayed put, despite being tracked (Harriet Jacobs in New York) 

Some were captured and retuned to slavery (Anthony Burns, Boston)

Some free born free Black folks were captured and sold into slavery (Solomon Northup)

Underground R.R. becomes more popular 

400

The President when the South started to succeed, did nothing to start it. Lame Duck. 

James Buchanan

400

What were some results from the Fort Sumpter Attack? 

4 more states (North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee & Arkansas) seceded

War starts, and the Confederacy Started it. 

500
A stronger Fugitive Slave Act was part of this compromise 
Compromise of 1850 
500

Name all the territories that participated in Popular Sovereignty

Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska 

500

Name all aspects of the Fugitive Slave Law

  • It required citizens to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves.

  •  It denied a “fugitive's” right to a jury trial. (Cases would instead be handled by special commissioners who would be paid if an alleged fugitive was returned

  • More federal enforcement




500

Result of Bleeding Kansas: 

Suggested to the American people that the sectional disputes were unlikely to reach compromise without bloodshed, and it therefore directly presaged the American Civil War.

500

Why were the border states important, and what were they? 

MI, KT, WV, MD, DL

Lincoln needed them in the Union, they would have tipped the war in the Confederacy's favor 

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