Events

Question 0

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 0

Violence broke out in Kansas because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Question 1

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Answer 1

Permitted Maine to the Union as a free state and Missouri to be permitted as a slave state. Made the Louisiana territory North of the Southern border of Missouri a free territory. It also made it so that southern slave owners could go into the North and recapture escaped slaves, this is known as the Fugitive slave law.

Question 2

Missouri Compromise of 1850

Answer 2

The fugitive slave Law became harsher, California was admitted to the Union as a free state, and Slaves had to be born in D.C. in order to be a slave their.

Question 3

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 3

Undid the Missouri Compromise by making slavery in the new territories Kansas and Nebraska up to popular sovereignty.

Question 4

Mexican War

Answer 4

A war against Mexico and America over what Texas’s border was going to be.

Question 5

Fort Sumpter Attack

Answer 5

The attack that started the Civil War.

Question 6

Harpers Ferry attack

Answer 6

John Browns attack to free slaves, which didn’t work.

Question 7

American Industrial Revolution

Answer 7

While the North industrialized, the South remained dependent on manual labor.

Question 8

Underground Railroad

Answer 8

A system run by Harriet Tubman that helped slaves in the South escape to free states and Canada.

Question 9

California Goldrush

Answer 9

California’s population grew making it able to be admitted as a state and when it was admitted as a free state, the South felt threatened.