Compromise & Expansion
A proposal to ban slavery in territories gained from Mexico.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
A law requiring citizens to help capture runaway enslaved people.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
The act that repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty in new territories.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens.
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The election that directly triggered Southern secession.
What was the Election of 1860?
The idea that settlers in a territory should vote on whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
The secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What was the Underground Railroad?
The violent clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
This ruling declared Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The reason Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860.
What was the split in the Democratic Party?
This state’s request to enter the Union as a free state upset the balance between free and slave states.
What is California?
She was the most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The political party formed to stop the spread of slavery into western territories.
What was the Republican Party?
The abolitionist who attempted to start a slave revolt at a federal arsenal.
Who was John Brown?
The first state to secede from the Union.
What was South Carolina?
A series of laws meant to reduce sectional tension, including a stricter fugitive slave law
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This book convinced many Northerners that slavery was a moral evil.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
A violent attack on a U.S. senator that symbolized growing sectional hostility.
What was the Caning of Charles Sumner?
The location of John Brown’s failed raid.
What was Harpers Ferry?
The Confederate attack that officially started the Civil War.
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
The Southern fear that limiting slavery in territories would eventually threaten slavery everywhere.
What was the fear behind opposition to the Wilmot Proviso?
A key reason Northern resistance increased after 1850.
What was anger over the Fugitive Slave Act?
This event showed that debate over slavery had turned into physical violence.
What was the Caning of Charles Sumner?
Why John Brown was viewed differently in the North and South.
What was that Northerners saw him as a martyr, while Southerners saw him as a terrorist threat?
A measure used by Lincoln to prevent Maryland from seceding and isolating Washington, D.C.
What was martial law?