Cessions and Compromises
Abolitionists
Bleeding Kansas
Debates and Elections
Vocabulary
100
What were the results of the Compromise of 1850?
What were a series of acts trying to settle regional disagreements over the state of American slavery.
- California would enter the Union as a Free State.
- The remainder of the Mexican cession was dived to incorporate part of Utah and New Mexico without mention of Slavery.
- Ended the slave trade in Washington D.C. - the nation's capital.
- A stricter fugitive slave law.
100
What was the Underground Railroad?
What was a network of routes and safe houses used by enslaved individuals to escape into free states or Canada.
100
Who was a radical and violent abolitionist who was a primary factor in Bleeding Kansas?
Who was John Brown?
100
Who won the electron of 1860?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
What were Borden Ruffians?
What are: Pro-slavery raiders who tried to sway the decision of popular sovereignty to ensure that Kansas enters the union as a slave state?
200
What were the results of the Missouri Compromise (1820)?
What was Missouri would enter the union as a slave state while Maine was admitted a free state. They incorporated the 36 30 line which divides the south and north, which marked states that would enter the union as a free or a slave state.
200
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin and its effects on the abolitionist movement?
What was a novel published by Harriet Stowe in 1852 that showed the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Law, it raised awareness of the fact that Slavery was not only a Southern problem, its evil poisoned the North as well.
200
What was the "Flooding" of Kansas?
What was the event in which once Kansas was made a territory, Northern and Southerners flooded into it to swing the vote of its status of Free or Slave State.
200
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
What is a series of debates between presidential candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas about slavery and popular sovereignty?
Fun Fact: It was so perfectly formatted that is still a standard debate format today.
200
What is Sectional Tension?
What is a division between separate regions within one territory?
Ex: Sectional tension between the North and the South about the idea of free and slave states and who would hold more power in the government.
300
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
What was an act used to please Southerners who felt that their rights were being denied, it enforces that slaves who escape into free states must be returned to their owners.
300
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Who was an American abolitionist and social activist who escaped slavery and made 13 missions to rescue around 70 enslaved individuals using the underground railroad.
300
What were some actions taken by pro-slavery settlers to sway the vote?
List one of the following events:
- What was setting up a government in which they wrote their own constitution making it illegal to even try to make Kansas a free territory.
- What was The Sacking of Lawrence?
- Destroyed printing press of local newspapers and demolished the free state hotel. 1 Wounded and 1 death (Own side)
300
What was the topic of a case in 1857 about the rights of enslaved individuals and their appeal for freedom?
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
300
What is Popular Sovereignty?
What is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people?
Ex: Individuals in the Kansas Territory has to decide whether it will be a free or a slave state by majority rules.
400
What was the Texas Annexation?
What was America wanting too expand their territory and Mexico proving a prince piece of land, so they sent their citizens into Texas who causes an uproar and they eventually brought in the military and fought a war and took it from Mexico in 1845.
400
What does this image show?
List three of the following:
- Who was James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, Stephen Douglas, and Franklin Pierce, all Democratic candidates for the 1856 presidential election, as united on the topic of slavery.
- A giant "Free-Soiler" is tied to the "Democratic Platform" and his held is being held back by Buchan and Cass.
- Douglas and Pierce are forcing a black man down the giant's throat.
- The platform on which his head rests is marked "Kansas", "Cuba" and "Central America", in reference to the Democrats plan for the expansion of slavery.
- The background shows burning buildings, fleeing families, and individuals being hanged.
- This image is in reaction to the violence against antislavery "free-soilers" during the events of the Kansas Nebraska Act.
400
What were some actions taken by the abolitionists to sway the vote?
List one of the following:
- What was setting up a government in (Topeka/Lawrence) and writes their own constitution.
- What was the event in which John Brown and his sons raided the home of pro-slavery individuals and hacked them up with broadswords on the streets, sparking the violence of Bleeding Kansas and evoking fear and rage causes deep tension within the settlers?
400
What was a primary reason for Lincoln winning the presidential electron of 1860?
What was because he was 1 republican versus 4 democrats, thus democratic votes were split between those individuals allowing Lincoln to sweep through and win?
400
What is a Proviso?
What is a condition attached to an agreement?
Ex: Wilmot Proviso suggesting that land gained by Mexico should enter the Union as free states.
500
What was the Mexican Cession?
What was an offer from the US to Purchase the land for $30 million, but Mexico declined the offer, so the us sent soldiers to harass and declare a war in which Mexico lost, America then offered half the price for the same land ($15 million) and Mexico accepted the offer, America also offered Mexicans equal rights, but then took it back.
500
How did the Dred Scott fight for freedom help further the abolitionist movement?
What was raising awareness of the biases of the Supreme Court, who's eventual decision to give slaves the right to appeal for freedom gave momentum to the anti-slavery movement and served as a stepping stone towards the Civil War.
500
According to Brown, what has he and his followers accomplished through their actions in Kansas?
List one of the following:
- What is him believing that he has already claimed the territory in the power of the Abolitionists.
- What was him believing that he will get Missouri to give up hope of making Kansas a slave state.
- What was him believing that the people of Kansas will adopt the Free Constitution that his invasion submitted to them.
- What was him believing that the results of the invasion would strongly benefit the abolitionist movement.
500
What were the results of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858?
What was a challenge by Lincoln to Douglas for who would be the senator of Illinois, Stephen Douglas kept his senate seat but Abraham Lincoln gained national attention.
500
What is Gross Domestic Product?
What is a monetary measure of the market value of all the financial goods and services produced by a country?