Compromise and Conflict in the early 19 th century (early 1800s)

1. Compromise and Conflict in the early 19th century (early 1800s)

2. What compromise drew an east-west line through Louisiana Purchase, with slavery prohibited above the line and allowed below?

3. What compromise drew an east-west line through Louisiana Purchase, with slavery prohibited above the line and allowed below? Missouri Compromise (1820)

4. What was the compromise that allowed California to enter as a free state, while the new Southwestern territories acquired from Mexico would decide on their own (popular sovereignty)?

5. What was the compromise that allowed California to enter as a free state, while the new Southwestern territories acquired from Mexico would decide on their own (popular sovereignty)? Compromise of 1850

6. What required slaves who escaped to free states to be forcibly returned to their owners in the South?

7. What required slaves who escaped to free states to be forcibly returned to their owners in the South? Fugitive Slave Law

8. What was the result of the Fugitive Slave Law in the North?

9. What was the result of the Fugitive Slave Law in the North? Northern abolitionist were Outraged, now the issue of slavery had come home to them

10. What repealed the Missouri Compromise line by giving people in Kansas and Nebraska the choice whether to allow slavery in their states (“popular sovereignty”)

11. What repealed the Missouri Compromise line by giving people in Kansas and Nebraska the choice whether to allow slavery in their states (“popular sovereignty”) Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

12. What were 2 results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

13. What were 2 results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Birth of Republican Party (1854)- created to oppose the spread of slavery. “Bleeding Kansas” (1856)- Bloody fighting in Kansas as pro- and anti-slavery forces battled each other. Example: John Brown, radical abolitionist who went to Kansas to stop the spread of slavery

14. What Supreme Court decision established that slaves were property not citizens and that living in free state did not make you free?

15. What Supreme Court decision established that slaves were property not citizens and that living in free state did not make you free? Dred Scott decision

16. Who were the people in the North who wanted to end slavery?

17. Who were the people in the North who wanted to end slavery? Abolitionist (Hint: See word “abolish,” meaning to get rid of, in abolitionist)

18. Who was the Abolitionist leader who published the anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator?

19. Who was the Abolitionist leader who published the anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator? William Lloyd Garrison

20. Who was a former slave who escaped to become the most prominent black Abolitionist?

21. Who was a former slave who escaped to become the most prominent black Abolitionist? Frederick Douglas

22. Who was the wife of a New England clergyman and wrote the anti-slavery book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

23. Who was the wife of a New England clergyman and wrote the anti-slavery book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin? Harriet Beecher Stowe

24. What increased fears in Virginia and led to harsh laws in the South against fugitive slaves?

25. What increased fears in Virginia and led to harsh laws in the South against fugitive slaves? Slave revolts, in Virginia led by Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser

26. Who debated for a U.S. Senate in Illinois (1858) and exposed the issue of slavery dividing the nations? vs.

27. Who debated for a U.S. Senate in Illinois (1858) and exposed the issue of slavery dividing the nations? vs. Abraham Lincoln (Republican) Stephen Douglas (Democrat)

28. What was the difference between Lincoln’s and Douglas’ view of slavery? vs. Abraham Lincoln (Republican) Stephen Douglas (Democrat)

29. What was the difference between Lincoln’s and Douglas’ view of slavery? vs. Abraham Lincoln (Republican) opposes spread of slavery (“House divided against itself cannot stand”) Stephen Douglas (Democrat) “popular sovereignty” (people decide, voting)

30. The Lincoln-Douglas debates were viewed as a deciding factor in the election of 1860. Who was likely to support Lincoln?

31. Election of Abraham Lincoln (1860)- elected by northern states. Against spread of slavery but promised not to interfere with slavery where it already existed.

32. South Carolina seceded from Union followed by other Southern states: Election of Lincoln is “trigger” that results in secession of lower southern states- feared Lincoln would try to abolish slavery.