compromises & laws
This compromise resulted in California becoming a free state and the passage of a stricter fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850
This violent event in Congress involved the beating of an abolitionist senator over the issue of slavery.
What is the Beating of Charles Sumner?
These debates between two Senate candidates highlighted the national divide over slavery.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
This was the first state to secede from the Union following Lincoln’s election.
What is South Carolina?
This agreement established the 36'30" parallel as the boundary for slavery in new territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise
This attack on a Kansas town was part of "Bleeding Kansas" and was sparked by slavery tensions.
What is the Raid on Lawrence, Kansas?
This speech by Abraham Lincoln stated that the U.S. could not remain divided on slavery.
What is the House Divided Speech?
This agreement established Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This 1854 act overturned the Missouri Compromise and allowed territories to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The first battle of the Civil War occurred when Confederate forces attacked this Union military base.
What is the Attack on Fort Sumter?
This event featured debates between an incumbent Illinois senator and a future president.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
This attack on a federal arsenal was led by an abolitionist seeking to arm enslaved people.
What is John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry?
This Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people were property and had no rights as citizens
What is the Dred Scott Decision
This best-selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe increased Northern opposition to slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This Supreme Court case declared that enslaved people were property, not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
The issue of keeping an equal number of free and slave states created continuous conflict in Congress.
What is the Issue of Balancing Power?
This event involved an abolitionist raiding a federal arsenal in an attempt to start a slave rebellion.
What is John Brown's Raid on Harper’s Ferry
This speech argued that the nation could not remain half free and half slave and still succeed.
What is the House Divided Speech?
Name two important decisions in the dred scott decision
African Americans free or enslaved did not have the same rights as white americans
Congress could not out law slavery in territories
This term describes the period of violent conflict in Kansas over the slavery issue.
What is Bleeding Kansas?