North vs. South
Slavery and the Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act and John Brown
Slavery in Politics
Potpourri
100
This section of the United States was against slavery (anti-slavery).
What is The North
100
This is the law that required people in the free states to help capture and return escaped slaves.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
100
The Kansas-Nebraska Act created these two territories.
What were the Kansas and Nebraska territories?
100
He was a slave from Missouri whose master had taken him north of the Missouri Compromise in 1834 where slavery was illegal.
Who was Dred Scott?
100
He thought that the government needed to pass specific laws in order to outlaw slavery/
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
They farmed cotton, Tobacco, and sugar.
Who were Southerners?
200
This is the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
What is succession?
200
These were people who raced to Kansas that wanted the territories to outlaw slavery.
Who were free-soilers?
200
What Dred Scott was suing for.
What is his freedom?
200
He honestly believed that people would vote slavery out of existence because they would realize how terrible it was.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
300
This region of the United States transported goods mainly on railroads.
What is the North?
300
They were really upset over the issue of slavery and threatened to leave the Union.
Who were southerners?
300
These were the pro-slavery people who snuck into Kansas to illegally cast their vote for slavery in Kansas.
Who were Border Ruffians?
300
This was declared unconstitutional as a result of the Dred Scott Decision.
What is the Compromise of 1820 (The Missouri Compromise)?
300
This state's constitution forbade slavery when it became a state in 1849.
What is California?
400
This region of the United States had an economy mainly based on agriculture/farming.
What is the South
400
California was admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico were allowed to decide about slavery for themselves, Texas was paid $10,000,000.00 to resolve a boundary dispute, the sale of slaves were banned in the District of Columbia (D.C.), and the Fugitive Slave Act was passed as part of this compromise offered by Henry Clay.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
He was a violent anti-slavery man that killed the five pro-slavery men during the Pottawatomie Massacre.
Who was John Brown?
400
These two politicians had several public debates in the 1850's over slavery.
Who were Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln?
400
He was beaten by a cane until the cane broke on the floor of the United States Senate.
Who was Charles Sumner?
500
Favoring the interests of your own region rather than the interests of the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
500
This is a system in which the residents vote to decide about whether slavery should exist in a territory.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
500
This was the name applied to the Kansas Territory in the years before the Civil War, when the territory was a battleground between pro-slavery and anti-slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
500
He was the Supreme Court Chief Justice that ruled on the Dred Scott Decision.
Who was Roger Taney?
500
This was an amendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery. (Congress did not pass the amendment.)
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
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