Pre Civil War

Question 1

What is an abolitionist?

Answer 1

someone who wants to get rid of slavery

Question 2

Identify William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 2

published an antislavery newspaper “The Liberator”

Question 3

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 3

wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 4

Frederick DOuglass

Answer 4

published a newspaper called the “North Star” and traveled across the country talking about the evils of slavery

Question 5

In 1819, the status of our country was balanced. How many of each free and slave states were there?

Answer 5

11

Question 6

After, something made our country to be unbalanced. What was is it?

Answer 6

Missouri wanted to be a slave state

Question 7

Something caused our country to be balanced again

Answer 7

Missouri Comprise. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.

Question 8

What is the significance of 36* 20’?

Answer 8

it was the official border between slave and free states

Question 9

Why is it so important to have the same number of free states and slave states in the Sentate

Answer 9

so that their power is balanced

Question 10

Dred Scott POV

Answer 10

“I am free because I am “I am going to sue the U.S. “I am sad because
not in Missouri but in Illinois Supreme Court because I the court said I am
and then Wisconsin” am free since I was in two a slave and slaves
free states” are not citizens so
I can’t sue”

Question 11

In 1850, how many free and slave states were there?

Answer 11

15 each

Question 12

California wanted to come into the Union as a ____ state. You know what the scale would look
like then. After 8 months of the “Great Debate” over what to do with California, who solved the
debate by offering the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 12

1. free

2. congress

Question 13

Did California become a free state?

Answer 13

yes

Question 14

The South got the Fugitive Slave Act. What did this act mean?

Answer 14

Slaves who ran away to free
states would be returned to their owners this is the only part you need to know that the
south got from this compromise

Question 15

In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act came about that created the territories of Kansas and
Nebraska. Included in this act was a statement on popular sovereignty. What did this
statement mean to the territories of Kansas and Nebraska?

Answer 15

When a territory asked for statehood, the people of a territory could vote on whether
they wanted to be free state or a slave state. This nullified (invalidated or abolished)
Missouri Compromise. States were previously territories.

Question 16

“Bleeding Kansas” is a name often referring to the fighting that resulted because of this Act.
Who was fighting whom?

Answer 16

Proslavery groups vs free soilers (were against slavery, they
wanted the land out west to be used for farming))

Question 17

What was the outcome of this fighting?

Answer 17

Kansas was denied statehood to be a slave state because it was above the 36° 20’
parallel line but soon antislavery people took over Kansas and they asked for statehood
and Kansas was admitted as a free state as was Nebraska