Pre Civil War

"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state. All states North of the 36th parallel would be free states and all the South slave states.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• secession

Attempted to compromise by passing the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and allowing Popular Sovereignty.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• secession

(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.

• Dred Scott Case
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

A Pre-Civil War political doctrine that held that individual states should decide whether to permit slavery or not.

• secession
• antebellum
• Sojourner Truth
• popular sovereignty

Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation.

• antebellum
• popular sovereignty
• Fugitive Slave Act
• secession

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote and anti-slavery book called________________ that inspired many people to join the movement to end slavery.

• The Life of a Slave
• The Liberator
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• The Quilt Maker

This law in 1820 provided that the Louisiana Territory north of the Southern border of this state would be a free-state.

• Kentucky
• Oklahoma
• Missouri
• California

What proposition would allow congress to ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the United States as a result of the Mexican American War.

• Wilmot Proviso
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise 1850
• Kansas & Nebraska Act

John C. Calhoun

• pro-slavery 
• anti-slavery

Uncle Tom's Cabin

• pro-slavery
• anti-slavery