U.S. Key Events

Question 1

A novel about slavery which was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It became a bestseller in the North. It made people start to view slavery as more of a moral problem, not just a political conflict.

Answer 1

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 2

An agreement made between supporters of slavery in the South and opponents of slavery in the North. The agreement included four parts:
California was admitted to the Union as a free state
The slave trade was banned in the nation’s capital
Popular sovereignty would be used to decide the question of slavery in the states created from the Mexican Cession
A tough new fugitive slave law was put in place

Answer 2

Compromise of 1850

Question 3

This was an agreement created in 1820 to establish and maintain the balance between free and slave states.

Answer 3

Missouri Compromise

Question 4

Popular sovereignty would be used to decide the issue of slavery in the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory

Answer 4

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 5

Where did John Brown raid to get weapons?

Answer 5

Federal Arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia

Question 6

What was the Wyandotte Constitution?

Answer 6

The Kansas Constitution that made Kansas a free state. Failed to get accepted by congress until the southern states secede.

Question 7

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

Answer 7

Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.