Civil War

1820 written by Henry Clay, admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri to enter as a slave state. Established that the Louisiana Territory north of the southern border of Missouri would be free of slavery.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Wade Davis Bill

Senator from Kentucky known as the, “Great Compromiser”

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Wilkes Booth

• Henry Clay

• Stephen Douglas

Senator from South Carolina, against compromise

• John C Calhoun

• Stephen Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

people in the territories or states are allowed to vote directly on issues, rather than having their elected officials decide.

• States' Rights

• Popular Sovergenity

• Mass Voting

• Jim Crow Laws

term used to describe the Southern States withdrawing from the Union

• Secede

• rebel

• Confederize

• uprising

California is admitted as a Free State. Slave trade is outlawed in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. Popular Sovereignty used to solve the question of slavery in territories gained from the Mexican Cession. Fugitive Slave Act is created.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of Washington

• Mexican Compromise

allowed special government officials to arrest, and return to the slave state, any person accused of being a runaway slave. Suspects had no rights to trial or contest to being falsely accused.

• Southern Slave Law

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dredd Scott Decision

• Jim Crow Laws

Novel Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, about Uncle Tom, a slave, and his experience working for an abusive master. Slavery begins to become a human and moral issue.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Clear and Present Danger

• Runaway Jury

• To Kill a Mockingbird

Senator from Illinois, who was responsible for passing the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• Henry Clay

• John C Calhoun

1854, Stephen Douglas proposed the act to form Kansas and Nebraska, as new territories allowing popular sovereignty to decide the question of slavery.

• Mexican Cessian

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dredd Scott Decision

• Bleeding Kansas