Let's Compromise
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska act were all created in an effort solve disagreements over this.
What is slavery?
What was the purpose of the abolitionist movement?
what is to end slavery?
This man would enter the presidential office with 7 states missing from the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This man was the champion of the Missouri Comprise of 1820.
Who is Henry Clay?
This was a network of people and places that provided shelter and passage to enslaved people attempting to escape the South
What is the underground railroad?
John Brown and his accomplices would seize a United States Government armory in Harper's Ferry Virginia. What was their ultimate goal?
What is a slave uprising/rebellion?
This was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory that occurred between 1854 and 1859
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This court case ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe increased tensions between the North and South by showing the harsh reality of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This war would result in the United States gaining present-day Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado.
What is the Mexican-American War?
On May22, 1856 a pro-slavery representative from South Carolina committed this attack on a Massachusetts Senator.
What is the Caning of Charles Sumner?
This group of provisions stated that California would enter the Union as a free state, Utah and New Mexico would choose for themselves, the Slave trade would end in Washington D.C. and the fugitive slave law would be strengthened.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This political party, founded in 1854 had a central principle of opposing slavery and would be the political party of Abraham Lincoln.
What is the Republican Party?
This President was in office when the Confederacy was formed.
Who is James Buchanan?
John Brown would be hanged for his involvement in the seizing of an armory in this town.
What is Harper's Ferry?
What piece of legislation was overruled as a result of the Dred Scott case?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
What is the Fugitive Slave Act/Law
This man would become the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?