The Missouri Compromise
TRUE or FALSE: The Missouri Compromise quieted the slavery debate for a while because it upset the balance of free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a free state.
What state applied for admission to the Union as a free state in 1849, creating controversy?
(hint: it was eventually added to the Union as a free state in the Compromise of 1850)
California
What territories were created as a result of this act?
Kansas and Nebraska
Why was Dred Scott suing for his freedom?
He believed the time he spent in free states made him a free man.
Lincoln won the election with just ____ % of the votes? An answer within 5% will count as correct
40%
Why was Missouri joining the Union as a slave state a "compromise"?
Because it lay North of the Ohio River
Give at LEAST two facts about the Fugitive Slave Law?
A law that required people to turn in runaway slaves.
Any person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights.
Persons who refused to help capture runaway slaves could be jailed.
etc.
What previous compromise was scrapped with the Kansas-Nebraska Act? And HOW was it undone?
The Missouri Compromise. Territories were allowed to decide whether or not to allow slavery instead of the line determining it.
What event led South Carolina, and six more states shortly thereafter, to leave the Union?
The election of Abraham Lincoln
What was the Missouri Compromise Line?
A line Congress drew across the Louisiana Territory. North of the line, slavery was to be banned forever, except for Missouri. South of the line, slaveholding was permitted.
Fugitive Slave Act OR Utah and New Mexico territories allowed to decide on issue of slavery
What happened in Kansas as a result of the decision to allow the territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery?
Violence broke out in Kansas as a result of pro and anti-slavery settlers that moved to the region.
What was the reason that Abraham Lincoln became a nationally known figure?
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
True or False: John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry made Brown a hero among abolitionists.
True.
Why was it SO important to Southerners that Missouri join the Union as a slave state?
Because they needed to keep the number of slave and free states equal.
Was the Fugitive Slave Act successful or unsuccessful? Give at least one reason to support your answer.
Unsuccessful. Northerners refused to obey law. Northerners helped enslaved persons escape. Southern slave catchers were harassed and went back to the South. Only a few hundred enslaved persons were returned as a result of this law.
Name two outcomes of the Dred Scott decision.
-Scott could not sue for his freedom in a federal court because he was not a citizen.
No African American could become a citizen.
-Scott's stay in Wisconsin did not make him a free man because the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
Name the 3 of the 4 candidates who ran for president in 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Breckenridge
Stephen Douglas
John Bell
Why were Southern states so concerned with keeping the number of free and slave states equal?
Your response must contain the words/phrases: "voting power", "Senate", "House of Representatives"
What is the Southern states wanted to have equal voting power in the Senate because the North already held the power in the House of Representatives?
List all three of the four outcomes of the Compromise of 1850.
-CA admitted as a free state
-New Mexico and Utah territories could be open to slavery
-Slave trade banned in D.C.
-Fugitive Slave Act
How did Chief Justice Taney justify the decision that Dred Scott could not be free because the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional?
He argued that slaves are property, and according to the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, property cannot be taken away from people without due process of law.
Banning slavery would therefore be the same as taking property from slaveholders, and that is unconstitutional.
What event turned the secession crisis into a civil war?
South Carolina's shelling of Fort Sumter.