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Congressional Acts/Compromises
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Important Figures
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Slavery
100
Introduced by Henry Clay to address the growing tensions between Missouri entering as a slave state and established the 36/30 line which admitted Missouri as a free state and Maine as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise
100
A method authorized by the federal government which gave the territory's citizens the right to vote on political issues (slavery)
What is popular sovereignty
100
American politician from South Carolina that believed states had individual rights and that states entered the union willingly and can secede from the union at will. 16th president of the United Stated that was a Republican that reunited the union
What is Abraham Lincoln
100
A withdraw for membership or statehood in a federal union or alliance
What is secession
100
This group of people believed that slavery helped teach African Americans religion and how to behave.
What is southern view of slavery
200
Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850. It stated that all runaway slaves would have to return to their masters.
What is Fugitive Slave Act
200
Federal sea fort located in South Carolina that was seized by Confederate General Beauregard that triggered the start of the American Civil War
What is Fort Sumpter
200
Extreme abolitionist who raided the Harper's Ferry federal arsenal in order to arm enslaved African Americans and inspire a revolt.
Who is John Brown
200
Abram Lincoln (Republican), John Breckenridge (Southern democrat), John Bell (Constitutional Union), Stephen Douglas (Democrat) all ran in this elction where Lincoln won, which out winning any of the slave states.
What is Election of 1860
200
This group of people believed slavery was a sin and slave owners were horrible Christians. This group of people also wanted to free African Americans from slavery.
What is Northern view of slavery, abolitionist
300
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise act and allowed white male settlers to determine by popular sovereignty, whether a state will be free or slave state.
What is Kansas- Nebraska Act
300
Book published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe that outlined the cruelty of slave trade and showed how slave families were separated by slave owners.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
Vermont governor that created the Kansas Nebraska Act and was the president of the confederate forces
What is Stephen Douglass
300
Region in the united states that included South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
What is the lower south
300
Book published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe that outlined the cruelty of slave trade and showed how slave families were separated by slave owners.
What is Uncle Toms Cabin
400
Proposed by Henry Clay, comprised of 4 separate major sections including banning slave trade in DC, allowed Utah and New Mexico territory to decide slavery by popular sovereignty, California would be entered as free state, and Texas gives it's claim to New Mexico.
What is Compromise of 1850
400
What were the 5 border states
What is Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia
400
Justice of the Supreme Court that was a Jacksonian Democrat who believed in states rights. He ruled on the Dred Scott case.
What is Roger Taney
400
A newly formed party in 1848 that fought for stopping the expansion of slavery in the new free soil in the Western territories.
What is Free Soil Party
400
Decision made by US Supreme Court that ruled African Americans were not citizens and were not aloud to sue in the US courts
What is Dred- Scott Decision
500
This bill banned slavery in any territory acquired for Mexico during the Mexican American War
What is Wilmot Proviso
500
Law imposed by the federal government in times of emergency that allowed the military to take full power of the state pr region
What is Marshal Law
500
American politician from South Carolina that believed states had individual rights and that states entered the union willingly and can secede from the union at will.
What is John C. Calhoun
500
Region in the United states that included Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia.
What is upper south
500
American Senator from Massachusetts that was a leader in the Radical Republicans who fought to destroy the Confederacy and free all slaves. He also wanted to punish the South after the war.
What is Charles Sumner