Vocabulary
It was a package of five separate bills passed by the U.S. Congress in September 1850. It aimed to settle disputes over the expansion of slavery into new territories gained after the Mexican-American War. The package admitted California as a free state, set Texas boundaries, created Utah and New Mexico territories with popular sovereignty, ended the Washington, D.C. slave trade, and passed a strict Fugitive Slave Act.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
In 1819, there were _____ free states and _____ slave states.
What is 11?
What act required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves?
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
What political party began to divide, with many Northerners leaving it?
What is the Democratic Party?
Who won the election of 1860?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas wanted to build a railroad from Chicago to the Pacific. At this time Nebraska and Kansas were not yet organized states. Douglas initially proposed to make these territories free, under the terms of the Missouri Compromise, but knew that Southerners would object. Backed by President Pierce, he proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which would invoke the doctrine of popular sovereignty and allow people living in the new states to determine the slavery issue.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
If what state entered as slave state would the balance of power be changed in the Senate?
What is Missouri?
Some Northerners helped runaway slaves find their way to freedom through a network called this?
What is the Underground Railroad?
What party did the antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers create?
What is the Republican Party?
How many states seceded from the Union after Lincoln's election?
What was 7?
South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.
A law passed in 1820 to keep an equal balance of power in Congress between free states and slave states. It made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state, and banned slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase lands.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
What did Northerners and Southerners not agree on?
What is slavery?
Senator Stephen Douglas called for making the territory west of Missouri into territories? What would they be called?
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
Who was the enslaved man who sued for his freedom?
Who was Dred Scott?
What group did these seceded states form?
What was the Confederate States of America?
Political theory that government is subject to the will of the people; before the Civil War, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there.
What is popular sovereignty?
What solution did the Senate offer that would allow Maine to enter as a free state to keep balance of power if Missouri entered as a slave state?
What was the Missouri Compromise?
What is the idea called of allowing the people of a territory to decide whether to be a free or slave state?
What is popular sovereignty?
In 1858, who was the unknown man who ran against Senator Stephen A. Douglas that would later make a significant difference in the US?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
What event caused the start of the Civil War?
The first president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
What plan called for banning slavery in any lands taken by Mexico?
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Name an event that happened after the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Northerners unhappy, while Southerners happy.
Pro slavery supporters from Missouri crossed into Kansas to vote in favor of becoming a slave state.
Armed groups, or border ruffians, were developed.
Civil War broke out in Kansas.
What was the debated topic of the 1858 election?
What was slavery?
Who fired the first shot at the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Who was the Confederacy?