Category 1: Early Compromises
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
He led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
This law forced citizens to return runaway slaves, even from free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
He debated Stephen Douglas in 1858 and later became president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The South’s economy depended on this type of labor.
What is slave labor?
The Missouri Compromise banned slavery north of this latitude line.
What is 36°30’ latitude?
This 1859 raid aimed to start a slave revolt by attacking a U.S. arsenal.
What is John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry?
This decision stated that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe increased anti-slavery sentiment
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The North’s economy was largely based on this.
What is industry or manufacturing?
This law was passed to ease tensions from the “Tariff of Abominations.”
(What is the Tariff of 1832?)
This phrase described the violent struggle over slavery in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This 1854 act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This man resigned from the vice presidency due to the Tariff of 1832.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This event caused fear across the South and a growing national debate over slavery and literacy.
What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
This agreement made California a free state and included the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This political party formed from anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats.
What is the Republican Party?
This amendment granted citizenship to people born in the U.S., including former slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This state threatened to secede over the Tariff of 1832, sparking a national crisis.
What is South Carolina?
This political leader from South Carolina strongly opposed the Tariff of 1828 and advocated for nullification.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act introduced this concept, allowing territories to decide on slavery themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
This series of 1858 debates helped Abraham Lincoln gain national attention and defined the Republican stance on slavery.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?