Early Conflicts
This state’s request for admission in 1819 caused a crisis over slavery.
What is Missouri?
This compromise temporarily eased tensions over slavery in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This line determined where slavery was allowed in new territories.
What is the 36°30′ line?
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This novel helped turn many people against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Southern leaders feared losing this if free states outnumbered slave states.
What is voting power?
This compromise included a stricter law about returning escaped enslaved people.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This proposed law would have banned slavery in land gained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
These two men worked together to create compromises between North and South.
Who are Henry Clay and Daniel Webster?
This act led to violence in Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Missouri Compromise created a balance between these two types of states.
What are free states and slave states?
This law required citizens to return escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This Supreme Court case ruled African Americans could not sue in federal court.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This president was elected in 1860, leading to Southern secession.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This event officially began the Civil War.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This river was used as a reference boundary in early slavery debates.
What is the Ohio River?
This act allowed settlers to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This law failed partly because Northerners refused to enforce it.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This famous quote begins, 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
After the 1860 election, Southern states formed this new government.
What is the Confederate States of America?
This territory would have been affected by the Wilmot Proviso.
What is land acquired from Mexico?
Ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C. was part of this compromise.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This decision declared that enslaved people were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This abolitionist hoped to start a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This phrase describes the violence in Kansas over slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?