History: Events leading to the Civil War

Question 1

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Answer 1

Boundary line drawn so no slave states can enter free states. Missouri and Maine become new free states.

Question 2

Compromise of 1850

Answer 2

States vote for slaves or for a free state, California becomes a free state

Question 3

Abolitionists

Answer 3

People who wanted to abolish slavery, Abe Lincoln is the leader of the abolitionist movement

Question 4

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 4

North had to return escaped slaves

Question 5

Dred Scott Case

Answer 5

1846-1857. In its 1857 decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.

Question 6

Frederick Douglas

Answer 6

Born a slave, learns how to read, he eventually wrote a book, an autobiography about him growing up as a slave. Goes on speaking tours and White people actually rethink the moral issues of slavery

Question 7

The “Slave Power”

Answer 7

the economic, social and political influence held by slaveholders in the Southern United States.

Question 8

“Free soil, Free labor, Free men”

Answer 8

The ideology of the Republican Party at the time: The party was focused on opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States.

Question 9

Republican Party

Answer 9

Abraham Lincoln was a republican, a lot of republicans at the time were abolitionists. Traditional views and conservative,

Question 10

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 10

Book showed the horrible conditions/treatment of slavery and increased northern protest against the fugitive slave act

Question 11

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 11

John Brown killed people who fraudly voted for slavery, states voted on whether or not they want slavery

Question 12

John Brown

Answer 12

1800-1859, John Brown wanted to combat violence with violence. He wanted to lead a widespread slave revolt. He becomes arrested and is put on trial and is executed. Many abolitionists were upset he resorted to violence.

Question 13

Raid on Harper’s Fair

Answer 13

assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armoury located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia