Compromises
This compromise in 1820 tried to maintain the balance of free and slave states in the Union. It also created the 30-36 line that made territory above the line free and territory below the line slave territory.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
This idea stated that it was God's will for the US to conquer the entire continent of America, from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This invention sped up cotton-processing, making the crop hugely profitable and increasing the demand for slave-labor in the South.
What is the Cotton Gin?
John Brown, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth were all part of this movement to end slavery in the US.
What is abolition?
This compromise in the US Constitution attempted to solve the debate on how to count enslaved people when counting state populations.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
This was the primary reason settlers moved West into California in the late 1840s.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This enslaved preacher led a bloody slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
Southern states began to secede from (i.e. leave) the United States after this event in 1860.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This compromise added California to the Union as a free state but allowed slavery in the territories of Utah and New Mexico.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This war from 1846-1848 led to the United States adding the territories of California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This enslaved man sued his owner for his freedom but lost his case in the Supreme Court, leading to a controversial court decision.
Who is Dred Scott?
This freed slaves in Confederate states in order to give the North more manpower for the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This act (added to the Compromise of 1850) allowed slave catchers to come to free territory to catch escaped slaves and bring them back to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Americans came to this territory and eventually fought two independence wars with Mexico over it. In 1845, 10 years later it was annexed by the United States becoming a state.
What is Texas?
This party was created out of Northern Whigs, Northern Democrats and Free Soilers. It was established after the Kansas-Nebraska Act and was centered around anti-slavery ideas.
What is the Republican Party?
This amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War and officially made slavery illegal except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This act allowed territories to use popular sovereignty (i.e. voting) to decide whether to become free or slave states. It led to sectional violence in the Kansas territory.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This president, who largely believed in Manifest Destiny, oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date which included the annexation of Texas.
Who is James K Polk (1845-1849)?
This book written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe portrayed the horrors of slavery and became a best-seller around the world.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
This battle is considered a turning point in the Civil War and is famous as the site of Lincoln's most famous speech.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?