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Describe the Dred Scott Supreme Court case and decision
What is the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property ?
allowed Maine to join US as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Location of the Federal Arsenal attacked by abolitionist in 1859
What is Harpers Ferry, VA?
law claimed citizens should help in the capture of runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery
What is Kansas?
the Southern beliefs about slavery
What is slaves were needed as laborer (workers)?
What the abolitionists hoped to accomplish
What is abolish (end) slavery?
Fighting that broke out as a result of popular sovereignty
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Supreme Court decision that divided the nation
What is the Dred Scott decision?
List three of the four parts of the Compromise of 1850
What is California came in as a free state; rest of Mexican Cession (Southwest Territories) would decided by popular sovereignty; Fugitive slave law enacted; banned slave trade in DC ?
The abolitionist that encouraged a slave revolt to protest slavery
Who is John Brown?
how the North felt about the Fugitive Slave Act
What is angry, stunned; caused many northerners to join the abolitionist movement ?
the act that allowed for popular sovereignty in the creation and admission of Kansas to the Union
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
What did Southerners think ending slavery would do to the Southern economy?
What is end (ruin) their economy?
Explain the population make up before the war (urban or rural in north/south)
What is urban in the north, rural in the south; Majority of people lived in rural areas?
loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole
What is regionalism?
the final event that caused the southern states to secede
What is the election of Lincolon in 1860?
why the admission of Missouri was controversial in the Senate
What is it would upset the balance of power in Congress?
region believed that national government was supreme
What is the north?
The idea that states, not national government, could claim something unconstitutional
What is States Rights?