Legislation
What is legislation?
The process of writing laws; written laws
What branch is the Supreme Court a part of?
The Judicial Branch
While it happened all around the world, Columbus started this practice with the Native Americans against their will
Slavery
What is sectionalism?
Where was John Brown's raid?
Harper's Ferry
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Who makes decisions in the Supreme Court?
Judges, Supreme Court Justices
Charles Deslondes led a _______________ called the German Coast uprising, where he and a group of enslaved people burnt plantation houses
Rebellion
Definition of containment
the act of keeping something under control or within limits
Who did the free soilers become?
The Republican Party
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Legislation that added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, it also separated the US between free states and slave states with a line.
What was the decision in the North Carolina vs Mann case?
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that slaveholders had complete authority over their slaves.
This enslaved man started a rebellion in Virginia lasting three days killing all the white people in sight, but everyone who took part in the rebellion was executed.
Nat Turner
Definition for secede
To formally withdraw membership
Lincoln wanted to contain, or stop the spread of slavery?
What happened in the Kansas-Nebraska Act that led to "Bleeding Kansas"?
Popular sovereignty would be used to decide on the new territories allowing or banning slavery
What was Dred Scott suing for?
Dred Scott was suing for his freedom
This rebellious abolitionist was NOT enslaved and he was publicly executed for attacking an arsenal
John Brown
Definition for incumbent
holding a position or office
Which man from South Carolina was involved in the Nullification Crisis and wanted to secede from the Union?
John Calhoun
Explain the main parts of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Slavery was banned in the Northwest territory
What was the decision in the Dred Scott case?
The Supreme Court ruled that even free African Americans were not considered citizens and had no rights under the Constitution
What were BOTH reactions to rebellions? North AND South
North: saw the punishments as cruel and harsh, saw John Brown as a hero
South: became scared of enslaved rebels, completed public executions to intimidate slaves
Definition for arsenal
a place where weapons and other military equipment are stored
Besides violence, what was another known way enslaved people resisted slavery?
by "accidentally" breaking tools or working slowly