Key Figures
This formerly enslaved person became a famous speaker and writer against slavery.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This compromise counted enslaved people as 3/5 for representation.
What is the 3/5th Compromise? What is the Great Compromise?
This violent conflict in Kansas showed the dangers of popular sovereignty.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This movement aimed to end slavery.
What is Abolition?
This election led Southern states to begin seceding.
What is the Election of 1860?
This enslaved women helped people escape using the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This violent act in Congress involved a senator being attacked with a cane.
What is the Brooks-Sumner Caning?
This system helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This event brought a massive population boom to California, speeding up its request for statehood.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry (Daily Double)
Who is John Brown?
This compromise kept balance between free and slave states in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This infamous raid increased fear in the South of slave rebellions.
What is the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
This was the forced migration route of enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This war added vast new territories to the United States, raising the question of whether slavery would expand.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Known as the "Great Compromiser," he helped create several influential policies.
Who is Henry Clay?
This act allowed territories to vote on slavery using popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Supreme Court case ruled enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This former independent republic was annexed by the U.S. in 1845, helping spark war with Mexico and raising questions about the expansion of slavery.
What is Texas?
This book increased anti-slavery feelings in the North.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This abolitionist published The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
his group of laws admitted California as free but strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This 1831 rebellion led to stricter slave laws in the South.
What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
This idea let settlers vote on slavery in their territory.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This Union regiment showed African Americans could fight bravely in the war effort.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?