Compromises
Missouri Compromise was to keep these two sides balanced
North and South OR Slave and Free States
This is what the Kansas-Nebraska Act did...
Allowed settlers to come in and vote on whether slavery would exist in newly created states or not.
This was Lincolns stance on slavery
Lincoln was anti-slavery
Trying to target and end slavery
What was the special word for moving West (NOT WESTWARD EXPANSION)
Manifest Destiny
These two states were added to the Union during the Missouri Compromise
Missouri and Maine
This is the term for when people were voting to pass something directly, like whether slavery would exist in a state or not...
This party won the majority of the Southern states (be specific)
Southern Democrats
This was a famous abolitionist: she was previously enslaved, escaped, and then helped other slaves flee the South.
Harriet Tubman
Which women started the women's right movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This was the man who proposed the two compromises (Missouri and 1850)
This was the term that people referred to Kansas as when fighting broke out there...
Bleeding Kansas
This was Douglas' stance on slavery (and the special term used)...
Douglas thought people should decide whether a new state was free or slave (popular sovereignty)
Name 1 other abolitionist
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
John Brown
Sojourner Truth
Lucretia Mott
This abolitionist was a speaker at the Seneca Falls Women's Rights rally
This was the 4 conditions in the Compromise of 1850
1. California would be admitted as a free state
2. Popular Sovereignty would be used as the method to decide whether a state is free or slave
3. Fugitive Slave Act is passed
4. Slave trade is outlawed in Washington D.C.
This is abolitionist killed 6 anti-slavery settlers in Kansas
John Brown
These are two reasons why Lincoln won the election of 1860
The Democrats were split on how to approach slavery (Northern and Southern)
More people lived in the North than the South
Lincoln was clear on his message unlike the Democrats
Lincoln did was more moderate than made out to be and did not say he would end slavery where it already existed
This writer wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was used as an inspiration for the Abolitionist Movement
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What was the two major things that happened due to the Missouri Compromise
Maine (free) and Missouri (slave) entered as states and a line was created that split up the country, any state below the line could have slavery, any state above could not.
What did the Fugitive Slave Act do AND who pushed for it first?
It stated that any runaway slaves caught in the North would be captured and returned South AND John C. Calhoun
This was the final result for Kansas after the fighting had stopped
It entered the Union as a free state
What are the three things that happened following the election of 1860
Lincoln won, South Carolina seceded, and the South fired on Ft. Sumter (starting the Civil War)
Why did Dred Scott sue for his freedom, and what was the result for his case with a short explanation of why
Scott claimed because he lived in free states/territories (Illinois and Wisconsin) for multiple years, he deserved his freedom. Scott lost this case due to the judge saying African-Americans were not citizens (so he could not sue).
This tribe was forced out due to the Trail of Tears
The Cherokee