USH CFA #3 - Slavery & Abolition

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Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Established a boundary line at the 36th Parallel that acted as a division between Free and Slave States

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3/5ths Compromise

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A clause in the Constitution that counted enslaved people as a fraction of a person for population purposes

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Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

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Allowed for territories to vote on whether or not slavery would exist there.

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Compromise of 1850

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Admitted California as a Free State and implemented the Fugitive Slave Act.

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Frederick Douglass

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A famous former slave who published the North Star and gave speeches advocating for abolition

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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A famous Anti-Slavery Novel that revealed the brutality of slavery to readers in the North

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William Lloyd Garrison

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A famous abolitionist who published the Liberator, demanding immediate emancipation.

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Dred Scott

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Formerly enslaved person who sued for his freedom after being brought to a free state

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Define abolition

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Abolition is the act of ending a system or practice, especially slavery.

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Define Popular Sovereignty (in the context of the Kansas Nebraska Act)

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Popular sovereignty is the idea that people in the new territories could decide for themselves if they were to allow slavery to exist.