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Why was concern that Missouri would be admitted to the Union?
Missouri was a slave state. An additional slave state would upset the balance of power in Congress.
When Missouri came into the union as a slave state, ______ came in as free
Maine
This was a system of homes and people who helped runaway slaves escape to their freedom in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad
A senator, also known as the "Great Compromiser".
Who is Henry Clay?
Settlement reached when two arguing groups agree to give up something
What is a compromise
An act created in 1850, The___________Act, required Northerners to help return runaway slaves which primarily protected the interests of slave owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Who said this quote "I am naturally Anti-Slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon judgement & feeling."
Who is Abraham Lincoln
The year in which Lincoln was elected president.
A champion among abolitionists born in Litchfield, Connecticut, and the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
withdrawal of states from the Union
secede
Why did most Northerners probably support Abraham Lincoln?
He held an anti-slavery viewpoint and promised to keep slavery from spreading.
It brought a surge of people from all around the country to the west coast in search of wealth, eventually leading to the admission of California into the union.
What is the California Gold Rush?
Kansas had voted to allow slavery, but more people voted in the election than were allowed to do so. “Free-soilers” protested and set up their own government. People in Kansas began fight.
Kanas was know as ________________
"Bleeding Kanas"
A slave who sued his master for freedom in Wisconsin Territory, which resulted in a revolutionary trial for the anti-slavery movement.
Who is Dred Scott?
one who supported the end of slavery abolish – to do away with; to end
give twos examples
Abolitionist
Fredrick Douglas
Harriet Tubman
Abraham Lincoln
Agreement that ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
What is Compromise of 1850
This created the 36' 30 line in 1820 setting up system for free & slave states admitted to union.
The Missouri Compromise
Another term for the United States
What is the Union
Who was the conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The idea of allowing a state to choose its laws on certain issues, specifically its stance on slavery in certain states like Kansas, Utah, and New Mexico in the 1800’s.
What is popular sovereignty?
In 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas from Illinois suggested that two states be allowed to decide on the slavery issue for themselves.. What was act was created?
What is the Kanas Nebraska Act
What area of the country was added in 1803 after we bought it from France?
How did the end of the Mexican-American War cause the Compromise of 1850?
California was gained from Mexico- Cali wanted to become a free state from the Union
He was a strong democratic senator from Illinois, and he was was responsible for allowing both the Compromise of 1850 to pass as well as the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The Election of 1860 was the beginning of the end for the United States of America as people knew it. The Democratic Party split in two.
What party supported Lincoln?
What is the Republican Party