Identifications
This term used to described American's believed God Given right to expand west, regardless of who was there.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This act incorporated Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. States North of the 36x30 line would then be free while Southern states would be Slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This war led to Mexico ceding land to the United States in 1846. This land added to the debate over free Vs slave territories in the US.
What is The Mexican American War?
This abolitionist was known as a "conductor" on the underground railroad, making approximately 13 trips and freeing over 70 enslaved people.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This famed escaped slave turned abolitionist wrote an autobiography that illustrated the horrors of slavery through first hand experience.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This West Coast territory was admitted as a free state in 1850 as part of the 1850 Compromise. It was not divided by the 36x30 line.
What is California?
This document stated that any person who was not free would be counted as 3/5's a person for determining congressional representation.
What is the 3/5's Compromise/ What is the Constitution?
When Representative Brooks attacked Senator Sumner on May 22, 1856 over the issue of slavery. It was seen as a "Breakdown of reasonable discourse"
What is the Brooks-Sumner Caning/ Caning?
This person became the 16th President of the United States and issued the Emancipation Proclamation which demanded the abolition of all enslaved people
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This abolitionist sued for freedom on the basis that they lived in numerous free territories.
Who is Dred Scott?
This landmark Supreme Court Case led Justice Taney to declare African Americans as "non-citizens" and did not have the right to vote among other liberties.
What is Dred Scott Vs Sandford/ The Dred Scott Case?
This act forced citizens in assisting in returning and capturing runaway slaves. Non-compliance resulted in six months jail time.
What is The Fugitive Slave Act?
This attack by John Brown and his son's on pro-slavers led to the death of over 50 people at Pottawatomie Creek. It's seen by many as a "mini-Civil War"
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Abolitionists found their home in this political party because of their antislavery interpretation of the Constitution (Daily Double)
What is the Republican Party?
This abolitionist believed it was their God given duty to be part of the abolition movement regardless of blood lost.
Who is John Brown?
This US Midwestern territory had delegates from both the North and the South enter to vote for their cause of becoming a slave state or a free state.
What is the Kansas territory?
This controversial political doctrine allowed people of federal territories to decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
John Brown was unsuccessful in this raid at a federal arsenal in Virginia. He was found guilty of murder and treason but later held as a martyr by abolitionists.
What is Harper's Ferry Raid?
This political group did not want the expansion of slavery on their "soil" or territories before the applied for statehood.
Who were the Free Soil Settlers?
Abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this best selling book of the 19th century. Second to only to the Bible.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This senator came of retirement to write two controversial compromises in an attempt to end the issue of slavery once and for all.
Who is Henry Clay?
This compromise allowed territories to decide if they were free or slave states on the condition that California stays free.
The 1850 Compromise
This rebellion of enslaved Virginian's killed 55-65 slave owners and their families. It resulted in illiteracy laws for enslaved people and censorship of abolition.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
This journalist and abolitionist was martyred when he died protecting his printing press for the abolitionist movement.
Who is Elijiah Parish Lovejoy?
This abolitionist and social activist is remembered for the controversial decision to burn a copy of the Constitution in protest to slavery.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?