Early Unit 5 Content

This Act sought to allow popular sovereignty to decide the matter of slavery in each state.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Democracy Act of 1854

This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe sought to outline the realities of slavery

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Underground Railroad

• Stories from the South

• This Wicked Institution

This Supreme Court case ruled that African-Americans were not citizens and that enslaved peoples were property.

• Tubman v. Fairfax

• Douglas v. Charleston

• Scott v. Sandford

• Plessy v. Ferguason

Violence broke out in this territory over the issue of slavery and the implementation of popular sovereignty.

• Nebraska

• South Carolina

• Alabama

• Kansas

He sought to begin a slave insurrection by attacking a federal armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Although his plan failed miserably his actions did further divide the North and the South. The south saw him as a terrorist and were outraged that the North had portrayed him as a freedom fighter.

• Frederick Douglas

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

These two men ran against each other for a Senate seat in Illinois in 1858

• Stephen A. Douglas and Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln and James K. Polk

He won the Illinois Senate election in 1858

• Abraham Lincoln

• Mark Mullelly

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Frederick Douglass

This enslaved man sued his owners arguing that he had been freed when he was brought to free territory.

• Dred Scott

• Jim Sandford

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Frederick Douglass

He gave the "House Divided" speech in which he believed the United States could not remain divided over slavery and continue standing.

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

This abolitionist violently participated in "Bleeding Kansas" and is believed to have killed and mutilated five people.

• Abraham Lincoln

• James k. Polk

• Stephen A. Douglas

• John Brown