Compromises
This compromise set a line along the 36°30′ north line of latitude (the southern boundary of Missouri). Above this line, Congress agreed new western states would not permit slavery.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Who was William Lloyd Garrison
The name given to violence in Kansas during the height of the pro- and anti-slavery debate.
What is Bleeding Kansas
The author of Huck Finn who used his knowledge of the Mississippi River to write this book before he moved to California.
Who was Mark Twain
In a senatorial race of 1858, these two candidates held seven widely publicized debates.
Who were Lincoln & Douglas
Without intervention by Congress, Missouri was likely to enter the Union as this kind of state, upsetting the balance of free/slave states.
What was a slave state
This book, written by an abolitionist author from the North, showed the brutality of slavery in the South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
This senator was violently attacked with a cane by Preston Brooks after he compared slavery to prostitution in a speech, "Crime against Kansas."
Who was Charles Sumner
The literary device that uses humor to ridicule human stupidity or vice as a way to cause social change.
What is satire
Douglas claimed that this opposition party wanted to break up the union.
What is the Republican Party
This state was brought into the union simultaneously with Missouri to keep the balance of slave and free states.
What was Maine
Who were the anti-slavery advocates
Abolitionist, John Brown, led a raid on this federal armory in Virginia in order to steal weapons to give to ensalved people for an insurrection.
What was Harper's Ferry
The literary device that shows actions that is opposite to what would normally be expected.
What is irony
Lincoln stood firmly on the side of the Union with this famous speech.
What is the "House Divided" speech
The Compromise of 1850 kicked the issue of slavery down the road by enacting this Act that required the return of runaway slaves.
His first-hand account of his slave experience gave him a unique voice in the abolition movement.
Who was Frederick Douglass
This radical abolitionist and his four sons brutally murdered James Doyle and his two sons for being proslavery - even though they owned no slaves.
Who is John Brown
Although abused by his father, Huck finds a father figure in this unlikely character.
Who is Jim
This man ran for president in 1860 as a Republican and won,
Who was Abraham Lincoln
Instead of Congress, this component of the Kansas-Nebraska Act gave white residents the right to vote if they would be a slave or free state.
What is popular sovereignty
She was called "the little lady who started this great and terrible war" by Abraham Lincoln.
Who was Harriet Beacher Stowe
This group of proslavery Missourians crossed the border into Kansas in an attempt to sway the vote toward slavery.
Who are border ruffians
The author fashions the family feud scenario after this Shakespeare play, but with more realistic results.
What is Romeo and Juliet
Between the election in November 1860, and the presidential inauguration in March of 1861, seven states did this.
What is secede from the Union