Missouri Compromise of 1820
This state entered the Union as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Missouri?
California entered the Union as this type of state under the Compromise of 1850.
What is a free state?
Dred Scott was an enslaved man who sued for this right.
What is his freedom?
This book portrayed the cruelty and suffering caused by this institution.
What is slavery?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in this year.
What is 1854?
This abolitionist led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This Republican candidate won the presidential election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
When a state leaves the United States, this is called ____________.
What is secession?
The Missouri Compromise attempted to maintain this balance in the Senate.
What is the balance between free and slave states?
This law required people in free states to help return escaped enslaved people to their enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott in this year.
What is 1857?
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was a woman named Harriet Beecher ______.
Who is Stowe?
The period of violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups became known by this nickname.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
John Brown hoped to use weapons from the arsenal to help enslaved people do this.
What is fight for their freedom?
Lincoln's Republican Party opposed the expansion of slavery into these areas.
What are the territories?
This was the first state to secede from the Union after Lincoln's election.
What is South Carolina?
The Missouri Compromise temporarily reduced tensions over slavery but showed that this issue could threaten the unity of the nation.
What is the expansion of slavery into new territories?
The Compromise of 1850 allowed settlers in Utah and New Mexico to decide the slavery question through this idea.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Supreme Court ruled that African Americans could not be this, according to the US Constitution.
What is a citizen?
The novel showed how slavery did this to families.
What is split them up?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act effectively repealed this earlier law that had restricted slavery's expansion north of 36°30′.
What is the Missouri Compromise line?
John Brown's raid took place in this year.
What is 1859?
Lincoln won the election without winning a single electoral vote from this region.
What is the south?
What is false? (he only wanted to stop it from spreading)
This state entered the Union as a free state at the same time Missouri entered as a slave state.
What is Maine?
The stricter Fugitive Slave Act increased tensions because many Northerners believed it forced them to do this.
What is actively participate in slavery?
The Supreme Court also ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories, making this earlier law unconstitutional.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
One major effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin was that it increased opposition to slavery, especially among people in this region.
What is the north?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers to decide whether their territory would allow slavery through this idea.
What is popular sovereignty? (voting)
Many Southerners viewed John Brown's raid as evidence that some Northerners were willing to use this to end slavery.
What is violence?
Many Southern leaders feared Lincoln's election meant that slavery would eventually be this.
What is abolished?
The states that seceded formed this new government.
What is the Confederate States of America? (The Confederacy)