Missouri Compromise
The request of this U.S. territory to become a state helped lead to the creation of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Missouri?
The desire of this western U.S. territory to become a state played a major role in creating the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
This famous novel was written to help people understand the harsh realities and impacts of slavery in the United States.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
These two U.S. territories hoping to become states led Congress to pass the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854.
What is Kansas and Nebraska?
This man was elected president of the United States in the election of 1860, a victory that helped trigger the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This imaginary line of latitude was used in the Missouri Compromise to separate future free states from slave states.
What is 360 30'?
This act was strengthened as part of the Compromise of 1850, angering the northern states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Passed in 1793, this U.S. law required that escaped enslaved people be returned to their enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This earlier agreement about keeping a balance between free and slave states was mostly set aside when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed.
What is Missouri Compromise?
To legally leave a nation or state
What is secede?
This state was once part of another state but became its own state during the Missouri Compromise to help keep the number of free and slave states balanced.
What is Maine?
In the Compromise of 1850, these two U.S. territories were allowed to vote and decide for themselves whether they would be free or slave states.
What is Utah and New Mexico?
The Fugitive Slave Act was strengthened to include harsher punishments for people who helped escaped enslaved people instead of returning them. These punishments included...
What are jail time or fines?
This term describes the violent fighting and unrest that happened in the Kansas Territory after people from other states tried to influence votes about free versus slave states in the 1850s.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The name of the group of southern states that seceded after the election of 1860.
What is the Confederacy?
This American politician, known as the “Great Compromiser,” helped negotiate the Missouri Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
This earlier agreement about keeping a balance between free and slave states was mostly set aside when the Compromise of 1850 was created.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
President Abraham Lincoln is said to have called this author “the little lady who started this great war” because her writing influenced opinions about slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This term describes the idea that people in a territory could vote to decide whether they would be a free state or a slave state.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This was the first state to secede from the Union after the election of 1860
What is South Carolina?
During the Missouri Compromise in 1820, this state allowed one of its northern areas to become its own new state so the number of free and slave states would stay even.
In the first three months after it was published, this was the approximate number of copies sold of the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
What is 300,000 copies?
The Civil War started in 1861, a few short months after Lincoln became president. This action by President Lincoln lead to the first shots fired of the Civil War.
What is to send supplies to a Union fort in the South?