Missouri Compromise
Two
What is the number of Senate seats per state in the USA?
Abolished in exchange for the concept of Popular Sovereignty
What is the " 36°30′"?
allows the people to decide: free or slave
Abolitionist with sons
Who is John Brown?
South Carolina, 1860
What is the first state to secede from the Union?
Maine and Missouri
What two States are admitted under the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Washington D.C.
Where was slavery abolished (as part of the Compromise of 1850)?
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri
What are the "border states"
"I, ______________am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood" - 1859
Who is John Brown
Slavery
A tool used in class to demonstrate the changing balance of power in the Senate
What is the Senate Seat Simulation?
Law that effectively "deputizes" citizens
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
To 'FREE"
What is to emancipate?
1854, Act...divided the land immediately west of Missouri into two territories
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
April 12, 1861
“I take it for granted that the present question is a mere preamble; a title page to a great tragic volume” - 1820, Secretary of State
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Caused an imbalance of Senate power
What is the bid to admit California into the Union in 1849?
Required registration into military service for citizens between the ages of 20 and 45...
What is conscription?
Declared a free state by popular sovereignty when admitted into the Union in 1861.
What is Kansas?
Issued on January 1, 1863, declaring all slaves in areas still in rebellion were, in the eyes of the federal government, free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
36°30′ latitude
What is the line that divided slave and free territories?
Proposed a series of resolutions designed to "adjust amicably all existing questions of controversy...arising out of the institution of slavery."
Who is Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky?
Action of withdrawing formally from membership of...
What is secession?
Party, opposed the spread of slavery into the (new) territories
What is the Republican?
Elected as the first president of the Republican Party (1860 and 1864)
Who is Abraham Lincoln?