The Road to Succession
This 1860 election of this Republican candidate was the final catalyst that caused Southern states to begin seceding from the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 1820 agreement kept the balance of power in the Senate by admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This former enslaved person became a powerful abolitionist orator and published the North Star newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This 1850 law required runaway slaves to be returned to their owners, even if they were found in free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What are the three types of rocks we are learning in science right now?
What are Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic rock?
This first state officially seceded from the United States in December of 1860.
What is South Carolina?
This 1850 legislative package included the admission of California as a free state and the strict Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This secret network of safe houses and routes helped enslaved people escape to the North or Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This 1828 tax on imported goods outraged the South, who felt it only helped Northern manufacturers at their expense.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
Who is the 16th person in line?
Who is Joanna stewart?
This was the name of the new nation formed by the Southern states that seceded.
What is the Confederate states of America?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for this policy, which meant local voters could decide whether or not to allow slavery in their territory.
What is popular sovereignty?
This is the term for people who actively fought to end slavery in the United States.
Who are abolitionists?
Passed by Congress in 1828 to protect Northern industry, this high tax on imports was nicknamed the "Tariff of Abominations" by the South and sparked a major states' rights crisis.
What is the Tariff of 1828?
This is the name of the teacher who likes fake laughing.
Who is Mr Morillo?
An early agreement that counted 3 out of every 5 enslaved people for tax and political voting power.
What is the Three-fifths compromise
Pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups clashed in a violent territorial dispute that earned this bloody nickname.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
She was a famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, risking her life to return to the South multiple times to free others.
Who is Harriet tubman?
These state-level laws were passed by Northern legislatures to directly counter the Fugitive Slave Act by banning state officials from assisting slave catchers.
What are Personal Liberty Laws?
Fill in the blanks:
" There are two types of people in this world ______________________"
The people who make excuses and the people who do the work.
This foundational 1787 document established the framework for governing the nation but also included the controversial "Three-Fifths Compromise."
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This 1854 law repealed the Missouri Compromise, paving the way for the expansion of slavery in the Great Plains.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1857 Supreme Court ruling declared that enslaved people were not citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in any territory.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This specific clause within the Compromise of 1850 permanently ended the buying and selling of human beings inside the borders of the nation's capital.
What is the Slave Trade Act of 1850 (or the abolition of the slave trade in D.C.)?
The name of the school mascot.
Starry the star!