A Divided Nation

Where people of a particular state would vote on whether or not they would have slavery or not.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• Wilmot Proviso

• Popular Sovereignty

California would enter the union as a free state and New Mexico and Utah would decide via popular sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scot Decision

Made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed southern officers to arrest those slaves in free areas.

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Compromise of 1850

• Popular Sovereignty

• Wilmot Proviso

A bill that would ban slavery in all new U.S. states & territories

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• A bill that would ban slavery in all new U.S. states & territories

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso

Became the next president because we would enforce the Compromise of 1850.

• Franklin Peirce

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Fredrick Douglas

A plan that would divided the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories and allow the people to vote via popular sovereignty on slavery.

• The Virginia Plan

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

Illinois senator who came up with the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Stephen Douglas

• John Brown

• Franklin Peirce

• Abraham Lincoln

Both pro and anti slave groups went to which state to vote in the popular sovereignty election

• Illinois

• Missouri

• Kansas

• Nebraska

In the end, what happened to John Brown?

• He was killed in a slave uprising

• He was captured and hanged for treason

• He became governor of Virginia

• He became a leader of the abolitionist movement

In the Illinois debates for senator, who was Abraham Lincoln's opponent?

• John Brown

• Dred Scot

• Stephen Douglas

• Jefferson Davis