The Compromise Era
This statesman was known as the “Great Compromiser” and helped create several compromises to hold the Union together.
Who is Henry Clay?
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This act allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This political party collapsed in the 1850s due to disagreements over slavery.
What is the Whig Party
The main issue dividing the North and South in the 1800s.
What is slavery?
This compromise admitted California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This formerly enslaved woman wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
Violent fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas became known as this.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This new political party formed to oppose the spread of slavery into territories.
What is the Republican Party?
This term describes loyalty to one region rather than the nation.
What is sectionalism?
This idea allowed settlers in territories to vote on whether slavery would be allowed.
What is popular sovereignty?
This abolitionist author wrote a novel exposing the cruelty of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This purchase from Mexico provided land for a southern railroad route.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This senator strongly supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act and popular sovereignty.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
This term refers to the Southern belief that states could reject federal laws.
What are states’ rights?
This law required citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
This famous anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped increase Northern opposition to slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This Supreme Court case ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This abolitionist violently attacked pro-slavery settlers in Kansas.
Who is John Brown?
Southern states did this after Lincoln’s election in 1860.
What is secede from the Union?
This earlier compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state (which will be repealed during the Kansas and Nebraska Act).
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Many Northerners responded to the Fugitive Slave Act by doing this illegal action.
What is helping enslaved people escape / refusing to enforce the law?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed this earlier compromise line restricting slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This election in 1860 resulted in a Republican victory that alarmed the South.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This Civil War began in 1861 after Southern states formed the Confederacy and attacked a U.S. fort.
What is the attack on Battle of Fort Sumter?