this compromise drew a line at Missouri where no slavery was allowed above Missouri
What is the Compromise of 1820?
100
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed this year
What is 1854?
100
newly formed party, some say in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854
What is the Republican Party?
100
Wade in the water...fugitives would use this help them escape North
What is
1. North Star
2. moss on the north side of a tree
100
to break away from a country
What is secede?
200
a vocab term that means one section or region of a country favors itself over the whole country
What is sectionalism?
200
Kansas-Nebraska Act said...
What is
1. Kansas and Nebraska become two new territories
2. popular sovereignty decides slavery in both territories
200
main belief of the Republican Party-be specific
What is to stop slavery from spreading WEST
200
name of a person who helped slaves escape north
What is a "conductor"?
200
Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America...also known as the
What is the Confederacy?
300
popular sovereignty is...
What is people in new territories decide slavery by voting, decide for themselves?
300
massacre or 5 pro-slavery men by John Brown
What is the Pottawatomie Massacre?
300
two men who debated over key issues in the US in 1858 when they were running for US Senate in Illinois
Who are Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln?
300
most famous conductor on Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
name of event and year John Brown attacked the federal arsenal (weapons storehouse) in Virginia to arm slaves
What is
1. Raid on Harper's Ferry
2. 1859
400
3 parts of the Compromise of 1850
What is
1. CA is a free state
2. popular sovereignty determines slavery in Utah and New Mexico Territories
3. slave trade ends in Washington DC
4. new Fugitive Slave Act passed
400
reason for two governments fighting for control in Kansas
What is pro-slavery and anti-slavery men (abolitionists) fighting to set up a government to decide if Kansas would have slavery or not
400
winner of the election of 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
reason some slaves escaped to Canada and didn't stay in the North
What is the Fugitive Slave Law forced runaways in the North to be returned South?
400
name of big time abolitionist book that got Americans thinking about ending slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
500
Amount of jail time and fines someone could pay for not helping return a runaway (fugitive slave)
What is
1. up to 6 months in jail
2. up to $1000 fine
500
this man was attacked by Preston Brooks because of their different thoughts on slavery
Who is Charles Sumner?
500
name one other person who ran against Lincoln in the Election of 1860
Who is
1. Stephen Douglas
2. John Bell
3. John Breckinridge
500
runaway who made it to Wisconsin, was broke out of jail, and made it to freedom to Canada