Missouri Compromise
This state entered the Union as a slave state in 1820.
What is Missouri
This state entered the Union as a free state.
What is California.
What is Popular Sovereignty.
These were people who opposed slavery.
Who are Abolitionists.
This state entered the Union as a Free State in 1820.
What is Maine.
These two territories gained the ability to decide for themselves to be free or slave states.
What are Utah and New Mexico Territories.
This is thing is what was being built through these territories to connect the West and East Coasts.
What is the trans-continental Railroad.
This word means to come to an agreement on an issue.
What is Compromise.
He was the man behind the Missouri Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay
Slave trade in this area was made illegal, but the owning of slaves was still legal in this area.
What is Washington D.C.
This was the name for the years of conflict that occurred in the Kansas Territory leading up to the Civil War.
What is Bleeding Kansas.
This term means to be of one group, separate from others whether it be in belief, religion, politics, or other.
What is Sectionalism.
No states could be come slave states above this line.
This law allowed for the retrieval of slaves form the North by bounty hunters and northern states were compelled to send runaway slaves back to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law.
This man was a radical abolitionist who led many raids and battles against pro-slavery groups in Kansas and elsewhere.
Who is John Brown.
This term means that each state would have the ability to decide for themselves to become a free or slave state.
What is Popular Sovereignty.
What territory was prevented from becoming future slave states?
What is Louisiana Territory.
This politician was a huge proponent of the Compromise of 1850 as well as the one who created the Kansas/Nebraska Act.
This man was an anti-slavery politician who was nearly caned to death by a representative from South Carolina on the Senate floor after giving a anti-slavery speech.
Term used to describe the influence that southern politicians and wealthy slave owners had over those in politics and business.
What is Slave Power.