Vocabulary
supported the end of slavery
Abolitionist
This law or act made it so that it was illegal to help a slave runaway and allowed slaves to be returned to their owners if caught.
Fugitive Slave Act
What was the dominant economic activity of the South in the 1800's?
Agriculture
Which president issued the Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
Bleeding Kansas
The belief that it was America's God-given right to expand coast to coast
Manifest Destiny
California entered the Union as a free state because of which compromise?
Compromise of 1850
What was the North's economy based on?
Shipping and manufacturing.
Name the following event: The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More than 4,000 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.
Trail of Tears
According to the idea of Manifest Destiny, who gave America the RIGHT to expand across the continent.
God
an area that is under the power of a sovereign without the full rights and status of a sovereign state.
Territory
What were the two goals of the Missouri Comrpomise?
To settle dispute over the expansion of slavery between slave and free states and maintain balance in Congress
Why did the North support tariffs?
Tariffs would make foreign goods more expensive, which would encourage Americans to buy domestic goods, which were produced in the North; so it would help the North's economy.
In addition to requiring northerners to participate in the recapture of runaway slaves, what else did the Fugitive Slave Law require people to do? (Name 2)
The federal commissioner or local magistrate hearing the case was paid $5 for an acquittal and $10 for a conviction.
The alleged escaped slave could not testify on his own behalf, employ legal counsel, or otherwise present evidence to prove his innocence.
Federal agents could compel “bystanders” to “aid and assist” in the capture of alleged fugitive slaves or face fines up to $1,000 and jail terms up to 6 months.
What major question did the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 seek to address?
Where should slavery be allowed within the United States.
allowing the people of a territory to decide whether to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
This act increased the tension between North and South because it allowed slavery in all areas of the Louisiana Purchase under popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
List two qualities of the culture of the North AND the South each.
North:
industrial, religious, pro-modernization, believed in federal involvement
South:
Traditional, resented industrialization and government involvement
What was a major effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Repealed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
Violence between the two sides created warlike conditions that led to the territory being referred to as “Bleeding Kansas”
What two states were inducted into the Union through the Missouri Compromise? AND which was a slave/free state?
Missouri-> Slave
Maine-> Free
identification with the needs and values of the region of the country where one lives, instead of with the nation
Sectionalism
List 4 things the Compromise of 1850 accomplished.
(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, (6) continued slave holding in DC, and (7) stronger fugitive slave law
Abolitionists pointed to what line in the Declaration of Independence as a reason that slavery was wrong and against the nation's basic principles.
"All men are created equal"
According the Missouri Compromise of 1820, what line of latitude was used to determine slavery in the new territories.
Southern border of Missouri, 36˚ 30'
DAILY DOUBLE!!! What was the name of the Northerner who led a group of people to kill five slave owners?
John Brown