USH CFA #3 - Slavery & Abolition

Missouri Compromise of 1820

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

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

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

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

3/5ths Compromise

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

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

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

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

Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

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

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

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

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

Compromise of 1850

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

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

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

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

Frederick Douglass

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

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

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

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

Uncle Tom's Cabin

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

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

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

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

William Lloyd Garrison

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

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

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

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

Dred Scott

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

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

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

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

Define abolition

• Abolition is the act of supporting slavery and its practices.
• Abolition refers to the establishment of new laws and regulations.
• Abolition is the process of promoting a system or practice.
• Abolition is the act of ending a system or practice, especially slavery.

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

• It refers to the idea that the people have no say in government decisions. There are no free elections.

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

• Popular sovereignty means the government is elected by foreign powers.

• The government is controlled by a single ruler, similar to a dictatorship.