Causes of the Civil War I
The North and the South could not agree with each other about the spread and practice of this.
What is slavery?
This act caused Bleeding Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Who was the person who led a slave revolt in South Carolina? He was eventually captured and sentenced to death.
Nat Turner
Political party that grew out of the Whig and Free-Soil Parties.
Republican Party
This act required people to return escaped slaves to their owners. It also forced northern abolitionists to help in the process.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This organization helped slaves escape to the North or Canada. It was run by a secret network of abolitionists.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The idea that the people/citizens of a state vote on the issue of slavery in their state rather than the elected officials.
Popular Sovereignty
Eventual leader of the Republican Party and 16th president of the U.S.
Abraham Lincoln
A slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court in 1856 because he had been taken to live in a territory where slavery was illegal.
Who is Dred Scott?
The person who won the election of 1860, which pushed the South toward secession.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
Party that did not want to see the expansion of slavery into the western territories. Ran with the motto: Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Free Soil Party
This law stated that new territory won in the Mexican-American War could only be added to the Union as free states. It is named after the Congressman who suggested it.
The Wilmont Proviso
Book written about the horrors of slavery which became a bestseller, especially in the North.
Abolitionist author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This was a radical abolitionist leader who led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who was John Brown?
Describe the idea that Stephen Douglas had of "popular sovereignty."
Allowing people in the territory/ state to decide whether it should be a free state or a slave state when it joined the Union.
Nickname for violence in a certain territory over whether or not it was going to be a slave state.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
When part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest of the country
What is secession?
This was a raid led by a radical abolitionist which resulted in his and his followers' executions. It greatly scared the South but encouraged Northern abolitionists.
John's Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry
This is when the North and South met in the middle, adding 2 new states. Missouri was added as a slave state, Miane as a free, and slavery was banned above the 36'30 latitude.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
What were the conditions of the Compromise of 1850?
North:
1) Gain CA as a free state
2) Slavery banned in D.C.
South:
1) Congress does not interfere with slave interstate trade
2) New states get popular sovereignty
3) Fugitive Slave Act
This was created by Henry Clay in 1850, calling for the North and South to meet in the middle.
Compromise of 1850
He was the Great Compromiser. He created both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
Kansas-Nebraska Act