Compromises and Laws
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This man, when elected president, said he did not want to end slavery but prevent it from spreading.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The belief in loyalty to your region over the whole country is called this.
What is sectionalism?
The violent event in Kansas between pro- and anti-slavery groups was known as this.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This party wanted to abolish slavery entirely.
What is the Republican Party?
This 1850 law required Northerners to return runaway enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This abolitionist led a raid on Harper’s Ferry to start a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
This compromise counted enslaved people as partial citizens for representation.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
Preston Brooks decided to beat this man with a cane after throwing insults at his cousin and the institution of slavery.
Who is Charles Sumner?
This party supported the expansion of slavery into new territories.
What is the Democratic Party?
This law allowed territories to vote on slavery and led to violence in Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This enslaved man sued for his freedom but lost in the Supreme Court.
Who is Dred Scott?
This party wanted to stop the spread of slavery into new territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
While John Brown was about using violence to end slavery, this man and his newspaper, The Liberator, sought to end slavery through peace.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Abraham Lincoln ran for President in this year.
What is 1860?
Name two parts of the Compromise of 1850.
What are (any two): California = free, slave trade banned in D.C., Fugitive Slave Law, popular sovereignty in Utah/NM?
He debated Abraham Lincoln and supported popular sovereignty.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Name one reason slavery caused tension between North and South.
What is (sample answers: moral differences, economic differences, representation in Congress)?
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe angered the South.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
After Lincoln won the election, many Southern states did this.
What is secede from the Union?
This legal concept means letting the people of a territory vote on an issue like slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
He was a Southern senator who strongly supported slavery. Very scary man!
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This President annexed Texas as a slave state in 1845.
Who is James Polk?
Name two causes of the growing violence between North and South.
What are (sample: slavery, states' rights, failed compromises, propaganda like Uncle Tom’s Cabin)?
This series of debates helped Lincoln become well-known nationally.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?