Abolitionism.
What is abolitionism?
The movement to abolish / outlaw slavery.
The north and the south disagreed over whether or not ______ should be legal or illegal.
Slavery.
What was "Bleeding Kansas"?
When violence broke out in Kansas in the 1850s.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
An abolitionist who was elected President in 1860.
What were ways that slaves openly resisted slavery?
Escaping to the north.
Or...
Starting slave rebellions.
What is sectionalism / regionalism?
Tension & rivalry between different regions of a country.
In the end, Kansas entered the Union as a ______ state.
Free State.
Who was Dred Scott?
A slave who sued his slave owner for his freedom in the 1850s.
What does the word "secede" mean?
To leave or break away from a group.
Or...
To break off from a country to form a new one.
What was the Underground Railroad?
A secret system to help slaves escape to the north.
The debate over slavery in the west was reignited after the ________ War.
Mexican-American.
Why did southerners want to add more slave states to the Union?
To gain more pro-slavery representatives in Congress.
Or...
To protect slavery in Congress.
What was John Brown's plan at Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
John Brown attempted to steal weapons from an armory to start a slave rebellion.
Who were the Republicans?
What were ways slaves secretly resisted slavery?
They would destroy crops and tools.
Or...
They would learn to read.
Or...
They would created coded songs.
Or...
They would fake injuries / sicknesses.
Who was Henry Clay?
A senator who wrote the Missouri Compromise & the Compromise of 1850.
What did John Brown believe about abolitionism?
He believed that violence was necessary to end slavery.
What happened to John Brown after the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
John Brown was tried and executed for treason.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The man chosen to lead the southern states when they seceded.
Or...
The President of the Confederate States of America.
An escaped slave who was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
The Missouri Compromise agreed to do what?
Missouri would join as a slave state and Maine would join as a free state.
Or...
A line would be drawn at 36'30', and all future states south of it would be slave states.
Why did violence break out in Kansas?
Abolitionists and pro-slavery settlers fought over whether Kansas would be a slave or free state.
How did the North and South respond to John Brown's Raid differently?
While the South saw him as a traitor and terrorist, the North saw him as a martyr and hero.
How did the south react to Abraham Lincoln being elected President?
They seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
Who was Nat Turner?
A slave who led a failed Slave Rebellion in 1831.
What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?
It allowed police to arrest escaped slaves in the north and send them back to the south.
Senator Stephen Douglass' Kansas-Nebraska Act said that Kansas and Nebraska would ______.
Vote on whether slavery would be legal or illegal.
What effect did the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin have on northern society?
It exposed people to how badly slaves were treated.
Or...
It made abolitionism more popular in the north.
Why were southerners so upset that Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860?
Lincoln was an abolitionist, and they believed he would abolish slavery.
What was the difference between Radical and Pacifist Abolitionists?
Pacifists: Believed that they shouldn't hurt people or break the law to oppose slavery.
Radicals: Believed that slavery must end by any means necessary.
The Compromise of 1850 agreed to do what?
The Fugitive Slave Act would be passed in exchange for California being a free state.
Or...
The Utah and New Mexico Territories would be allowed to vote on slavery.
What happened to Senator Charles Summer?
He was nearly beaten to death by a slaveholding Senator after giving an abolitionist speech.
In the Dred Scott decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that _____.
Slaves were property.
Or...
African Americans were not citizens.
Or...
Slave owners could take their slaves wherever they wanted.
What was one of the major reasons Abraham Lincoln won the Election of 1860?
The Democratic Party could agree on a single candidate, and split their votes between different candidates.
Or...
Abraham Lincoln was very popular and respected in the North.