Slavery & Expansion
This is the number of enslaved people living in the U.S. when Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860.
What is 4 million?
These two states entered the Union under the Missouri Compromise.
What are Missouri and Maine?
These religious revivalists claimed slavery was a sin in the eyes of God.
Who were leaders of the Second Great Awakening?
Dred Scott sued for freedom after living in this type of territory.
What is a free territory (Wisconsin)?
He predicted the U.S. could not remain “half slave and half free.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This year marks the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia.
What is 1619?
This line of latitude was the dividing line for slavery in the Louisiana Territory under the Missouri Compromise.
What is 36°30′?
In 1836, Congress enacted this rule to silence debate about slavery.
What is the gag rule?
According to the Supreme Court, African Americans had no rights to do this in federal court.
What is sue?
This violent abolitionist led a failed 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This ordinance in 1787 banned slavery north of the Ohio River.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This man said the Missouri Compromise was better than no compromise at all.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This enslaved preacher led a violent 1831 revolt in Virginia.
Who is Nat Turner?
This Chief Justice wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott case.
Who is Roger Taney?
In the election of 1860, this new party ran Abraham Lincoln.
What is the Republican Party?
Missouri’s request for statehood in 1819 alarmed Northerners because it would set this kind of precedent.
What is allowing slavery in territories from the Louisiana Purchase?
This was the key reason Southerners didn’t want free states to outnumber slave states in the Senate.
What is fear of losing power to end slavery through legislation?
This abolitionist novel stirred anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This legal doctrine allowed voters in a territory to decide on slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
In response to Lincoln’s victory, South Carolina took this radical step.
What is seceded from the Union?
This amendment proposed by Rep. Tallmadge of New York sought to gradually end slavery in Missouri.
What is the Tallmadge Amendment?
This 1854 act repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Congressman was beaten in the Senate chamber after criticizing proslavery violence in Kansas.
Who is Charles Sumner?
This 1857 decision declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This event on April 12, 1861, marked the official beginning of the Civil War.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?