Question | Answer |
Compromise that ended the debate over whether or not to admit Missouri as a slave state | The Missouri Compromise |
The Senator known as the Great Compromiser, whom helped write both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay |
The two states admitted to the union under the Missouri Compromise | Maine(free) and Missouri(slave) |
The 1846 proposal for congress to ban slavery in all southwestern lands that might become states | The Wilmot Proviso |
The two major political parties in the 1840's | The Democrats and The Whigs |
The political party formed by anti-slavery supporters that wanted to ban slavery in all land gained in the Mexican American War | The Free-Soil Party |
The idea that people in each territory would vote directly on slavery, rather than having their elected representatives decide for them | Popular Sovereignty |
The concept of states withdrawing from the Union | Secede |
The Compromise that ended the debate over whether or not to admit California to the Union as a free state | The Compromise of 1850 |
The parts of the Compromise of 1850 made to please the North | California would be added as a free state and the slave trade would be banned in Washington D.C. |
The parts of the Compromise of 1850 made to please the South | Popular Sovereignty would be used to decide on slavery in states formed from the Mexican Cession |
Law that allowed government assigned slave catchers to travel into free territory and re-capture runaway slaves | Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 |
Three facts that made the Fugitive Slave Act unfair | Suspects had no trials to prove their innocence, only a white witness was needed to declare a suspect a runaway slave, the law forced northerners to help catch runaways |
Three ways northerners resisted the fugitive slave act | Mobs threatened slave catchers, they helped slaves escape to Canada, northern juries refused to convict people charged with assisting slaves escape |
Novel that helped people begin to view slavery as not just a political conflict but a moral issue | Uncle Tom`s Cabin |
Author of Uncle Tom`s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Act proposed by Stephen A. Douglas to undo to Missouri Compromise and allow Popular Sovereignty in territories where slavery was previously banned | The Kansas Nebraska Act |
How did pro-slavery supporters win the Popular Sovereignty election in Kansas? | They traveled to Kansas from Missouri and voted illegally |
Nickname given to Kansas because of all of the violence between pro and anti-slavery supporters | Bleeding Kansas |
Senator who was assaulted after he insulted a congressmen`s relative in an anti-slavery speech | Charles Sumner |
Congressmen who attacked a Senator for insulting his uncle during a speech in congress | Preston Brooks |
New party formed from anti-slavery Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free-Soilers | Republicans |
A supreme court ruling that stated that slavery was legal in all territories | Dred Scott Decision |
Type of rights that protected slavery in all states according to the Dred Scott Decision | Property rights |
Republican that believed slavery was wrong and all slaves were entitled to all the rights in the Declaration of Independence | Abraham Lincoln |
Participated in several debates against Abraham Lincoln and defeated him in a race for Illinois State Senate | Stephen Douglas |
Attacked Harpers Ferry, VA in plans to steal government weapons and use them to lead a slave revolt | John Brown |
The main platform of the Republican Party | To stop slavery from spreading to western territories |
Governor from Texas that opposed secession | Sam Houston |
First state to secede from the Union | South Carolina |
Name of the Southern Nation formed from seceded states | Confederate States of America |
President of the Southern Nation | Jefferson Davis |
Where the first shots of the civil war where fired after Lincoln tried to send supplies to hungry soldiers | Fort Sumter |