Slavery & Abolition
Slaves were considered ________ , not human beings.
Property
The 1820 Missouri Compromise drew a horizontal line dividing the country in half. It made slavery illegal in all states and territories in the north or the south?
The North
Lincoln gained fame through his debates running to be an Illinois senator against who?
Stephen Douglas
To acquire or add a state into a country.
Annexation
This machine took the seeds out of cotton plants. This made harvesting cotton much easier, which ultimately made growing cotton more profitable. It led to an increase in slavery in the U.S.
The Cotton Gin
Law that made citizens in all states and territories legally obligated to help assist with recapturing and returning escaped slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act
True or False: Lincoln proposed that slavery remain where it already existed, but not allow it to expand.
To formally withdraw or leave a country.
Secession
List three famous American abolitionists.
Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Solomon Northup, John Brown
Bill passed by Congress in 1854 that repealed the slavery line drawn in the Missouri Compromise; now each state would decide whether it would be a free or slave state based on popular sovereignty.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
In the Election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States and the first president representing which political party?
The Republican Party
A war between citizens of the same country.
The violent, radical abolitionist from Connecticut that killed several pro-slavery advocates in Kansas.
John Brown
In the Supreme Court case Scott v. Sandford, was Dred Scott determined to be free or enslaved?
What was the main cause of the American Civil War?
Slavery
Popular sovereignty