What was a deal made with Webster, Clay, and Calhoun that kept balance between slave and free states?
The Missouri Compromise (1820).
What did Missouri enter the union as?(slave or free state)
A slave state.
What did Maine enter the union as?(slave or free state)
A free state.
What was a slave rebellion in Virginia that lasted 36 hours?
Nat Turner's Rebellion.
What did they use to justify the Nat Turner Rebellion?
Biblical passages.
What did Nat Turner convince the slaves to do?
Join the rebellion.
During Nat Turner's Rebellion what did they go house to house doing, and who were they stopped by?
Killing Southerner whites, and they were stopped by the U.S. army.
What was a deal made with Webster, Clay, and Calhoun with the land acquired by the Mexican American war that new states could vote to be free or slave?
Compromise of 1850.
What state was admitted to the union for the compromise of 1850, and was it a slave or free state?
The state of California, and it was a free state because it was given to the North.
What was passed during the compromise of 1850?
The Fugitive Slave Act.
What was part of the Compromise of 1850 that allowed Southern slave hunters to come into the northern states and territories to reclaim runaway slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act.
What allowed settlers of states in the West to determine if they wanted to be free or slave by voting?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act get rid of, and why?
The Missouri Compromise, and because balance was no longer necessary.
What was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Bleeding Kansas.
What happened for Bleeding Kansas?
Both pro- and anti- slavery settlers rushed to Kansas to settle and vote.
For bleeding Kansas what soon broke out for both sides?
Violence.
What was the case called that someone sued his masters's family because they held him as a slave while living on free land?
The Dred Scott Case.
Who was it that sued his masters's family because they held him as a slave while living on free land?
Dred Scott.
Why wouldn't The Supreme Court hear the case of Dred Scott?
Because he wasn't considered a citizen because he was born a slave.
What was the North's reaction to the Dred Scott case?
This outraged the North.
What was it called when anti-slavery democrats from the North and the Whigs met in Michigan to form a new party which was the Republicans?
The Formation of the Republican Party.
What was the Republican Party's main goal?
To stop slavery from spreading into the West.
Who was it that led a raid in Kansas, and what was it called?
John Brown, and John Brown's Raid. What
What did John Brown hope to happen with this raid?
He was hoping to arm the slave population and have them rise up against the South.
Did slaves join with John Brown?
No because they didn't want what happened to Nat Turner to happen to them.
What was John Brown accused of, and sentenced to ?
He was accused of treason and sentenced to death.
What happened in the election of 1860?
Lincoln (a republican) was elected president.
What does Lincoln make the issue of his election?
He makes slavery his issue of the election.
Since Lincoln makes slavery the issue of the election how does the south feel about this?
They had felt that they've lost their voice in the government and have no choice but to secede.
What happened in result of Lincoln's election.
The south secedes.
What do the south so after Lincoln is elected as president and the south feels they lost their voice in national government and the government was no longer representing their interests?
This is the Southern Secession beginning.
Who was the first to secede.
South Carolina.
What do Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas do by February of 1861?
They also secede from the union.
What was formed when many states seceded?
The Confederate States of America.