An agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state; temporarily preserved the balance between free and slave states.

This legislation added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Difficult to keep the balance between free and slave states.

A series of slave revolts on plantations in Virginia that killed over 60 whites. As a result, teaching enslaved or free Blacks to read and write were outlawed. Gatherings were also made illegal.

This legislation would have outlawed slavery in states acquired/won in the Mexican American War. It did not pass.

This legislation admitted California as a free state, did not outlaw slavery in the Mexican Cession (land won in the Mexican American War) and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.

A fictional book written to describe the horrors of slavery in the South. Helped widen the division between the North and South.

A violent attack on proslavery settlers by abolitionist John Brown and his supporters in the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kanas of May 1856.

An enslaved man from Virginia who tried to sue for his freedom based on having lived in free territory. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B Taney (an enslaver) declared enslaved Blacks had no rights as a citizen of the United States.

A series of 1858 debates in which the central topic was slavery. The winner won the Illinois senator's seat, but the loser went on to became POTUS in 1860.

This abolitionist attempted to raid the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The goal was to arm the enslaved and begin an armed insurrection. He was caught, tried and executed for treason. This event further divided the nation between those who were antislavery and proslavery.

Lincoln is elected POTUS in spite of not being on the ballot in 10 southern states.

South Carolina became the first state to secede. In 1861, six more joined them including Louisiana.

This fort was a Union outpost in Confederate land. Confederates blocked resupply and bombarded the fort. This was the start of the Civil War.

The principle that the rights of individual states should win over the rights of the federal government.

The economy of the Northern states began to shift towards ________ and the economy of the Southern states depended on __________. Select the two answers that correctly fill the blanks.

The act of officially ending something (such as slavery).

To withdraw/leave a group or organization; to no longer be apart of a government or nation.

The belief that the interests of a region are more important than those of a country as a whole.

Names used to describe the states north of the 36 30 parallel. Select all that apply.

Names used to describe the states south of the 36 30 parallel. Select all that apply.

This federal act was created to make sure Southern enslavers (slaveholders) that they could reclaim enslaved people who escaped to free states.

These states (Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri) were slave states that did not secede from the Union. In 1863, a new state (West Virginia) joined them. These states were (sandwiched) between free states to the north and slave states to the south.