The Debate Over Slavery
The war in 1848 that the United States fought to gain more land in the west:
What is the Mexican American War?
The two territories that would be based on popular sovereignty and create violence about the issue of slavery
What is Kansas and Nebraska territories?
The Dred Scott decision that said African Americans were or were not citizens?
What is were not citizens?
What is the issue over slavery
Became the 16th President of the United States, and did not want slavery to continue to grow, but also did not want to get rid of it in exisiting areas
What is Abraham Lincoln?
The state that would enter the Union as a free state:
What is California?
A part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act; this would expand from Chicago to the west toward the Pacific Ocean
What is a transcontintental railroad?
The Dred Scott decision that said Dred Scott was a free man or not a free man because he went to a free state.
What is not a free man?
The name of the man who attempted to end slavery and take over the aresenal at Harpers Ferry
What is John Brown?
A slave who fought for his freedom after visiting the free states of of Illinois and Wisconsin; his case would travel to the Supreme Court
What is Dred Scott
This act made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas:
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Pro-slavery activists rushed into the anit-slavery government in Kansas and set buildings and presses on fire because they did not consider the anit-slavery government "official"
Attack on Lawrence or Sack of Lawrence?
What is could not?
The term meaning to remove onself from the Union
What is secede?
The person who came up with the Compromise of 1850, the plan to maintain peace between the North and the South:
What is Henry Clay of Kentucky?
The idea that political power belongs to the people:
What is popular sovereignty?
The incident that occured on the Congress floor when a pro-slavery Senator attacked an anti-slavery Senator with a cane for making comments about his relative
What is the Brooks attack on Sumner?
The belief Abraham Lincoln held during the Lincoln-Douglas debates over the topic of slavery
What is believed Democrats were trying to spread slavery across the nation; African Americans were entitled to natural rights listed in the Constitution?
The name of the states that seceded from the Union
What is the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy?
The Chief Justice who wrote most of the Dred Scott ruling
What is Roger B. Taney?
The 3 major parts of the Compromise of 1850 were:
What is:
California would enter the Union as a free state
The rest of the Mexican Cession would be based on popular sovereignty
The Fugitive Slave Act would be strengthened
The event that was led by an abolitionist, John Brown, as a vicious response to the Sack of Lawrence:
What is the Pottawatomie Massacre?
The belief Stephen Douglas held during the Lincoln-Douglas debates over the topic of slavery
What is Republicans were tyring to make every state a free state; Congress no longer had the right to decide on the question of slavery, only the people based on popular sovereignty?
What is Jefferson Davis?
The Senator who created the Kansas-Nebraska Act, proposed a railroad, and faced Lincoln in debates for U.S. Senator
What is Stephen Douglas?