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Why Can’t We Be Friends?
From Sea to Shining Sea
We’re Not In Kansas Anymore
Abolitionism and Slavery
This is going South, fast
100
In the Compromise of 1850, how and why did Douglas group his resolutions?
In pairs, each pair offered a compromise
100
Citizens of each new territory decide for themselves if they want slavery or not
popular sovereignty
100
In the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the decision on to allow slavery or not was to be made by
the people of the state
100
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
100
This reform movement caused the greatest tension between the North and the South
Abolitionism
200
This solution was to admit Missouri as a slave sate and Maine as a free state
Missouri Compromise
200
This referred to the idea the that US would inevitably stretch across N. America from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Manifest Destiny
200
This raid’s greatest impact deepened the division between the North and the South
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
200
This was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
200
This was the first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
300
Henry Clay proposed this peace-making bill after California wanted to become a free state
Compromise of 1850
300
In 1849, thousands of people went to California because
Gold had been discovered there
300
This was John Brown’s Intention in raid in the arsenal at Harpers Ferry
Arm enslaved people and create an uprising
300
This slave’s court case went to the Supreme Court.
Dred Scott
300
This was the name of the new country in the South
Confederate States of America
400
After this act passed, Northerners headed for Kansas to create an anti-slavery majority there
Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
This bill that was never passed but would have prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
400
By rejecting this document, Kansas voters rejected slavery in their state
Lecompton constitution
400
This forced all American to help catch escaped slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
400
When Abraham Lincoln sent supplies to this location it led to the first battle of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
500
Both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 settled conflicts between the north and south over
Admission of states to the Union
500
Whether slavery should be allowed in the western territories after which conflict?
Mexican War
500
This politician said “a house divided against itself cannot stand”
Abraham Lincoln
500
These laws in the North restricted slave recapture
personal liberty laws
500
In 1860-1861 seven southern states seceded in protest of the
Election of Lincoln as President