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
This was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860.
South Carolina
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 act of a group breaking away from the country
Secession
California entered the Union as a free state because of which compromise?
Compromise of 1850
What did the South refer to Northern states and the Federal Government as?
the Union
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 1,000 miles 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
This was the main reason abolitionists were outraged by the Dred Scott decision.
It expanded the power of slavery into new territories
an area that is under the power of a sovereign without the full rights and status of a sovereign state.
Territory
What were two goals of the Missouri Compromise?
Maintain a balance of slave and free states
Decrease tensions between the North and South (so that a Civil War wouldn't break out)
Which act increased tensions the most between Northern and Southern states?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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 left the question of slavery (in territory from the Louisiana Purchase) up to popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott could not sue for his freedom because he was this.
Slave (property)
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 3 things the Compromise of 1850 accomplished.
(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) slave trade abolished in DC, (4) continued slave holding in DC, and (5) stronger fugitive slave law
This 19th-century belief, rooted in science and racism, argued that Black people were biologically inferior to white people.
Race Science/Scientific Racism
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!!! This term refers to the belief that slavery helped African people by civilizing them and exposing them to Christianity.
Paternalism