Compromises before the Civil War

What does secede mean?

To leave or withdraw

What are the main parts of the Missouri Compromise?

Missouri = slave state; Maine = free state

One free state and one slave state brought into the Union

No slavery north of 36°30' line

Henry Clay negotiated

What year was the Missouri Compromise?

1820

What are the main parts of the Compromise of 1850?

California free state

No restrictions on slavery in Southwest Territory

No slave trade in DC

Fugitive Slave Act

What is important about Kansas-Nebraska Act?

"Popular Sovereignty" = people decide about slavery

Bleeding Kansas

Who was elected in 1860?

Abraham Lincoln

What happened following the election of Lincoln?

Some Southern States Seceded

What is Sectionalism?

The division of the country into sections leading up to the Civil War

States' Rights

The belief that the individual states should be more powerful than the national government.

Nullification

The belief that individual states had the right to cancel or do away with a national law they didn't like

John Brown

Abolitionist who led a raid on Harper's Ferry in hopes of taking over the arsenal to arm slaves. 16 Oct 1859

John C. Calhoun

US Statesman & spokesperson for slavery in the South from South Carolina

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

What happened when Lincoln refused to give up Fort Sumter in SC? (Opening shots of the Civil War)

Confederate forces attacked the fort.

What is a border state?

A slave state that stayed in the Union

What are the names of the 4 border states?

Missouri (MO)

Kentucky (KY)

Maryland (MD)

Delaware (DE)

What new free state was created when western counties of VA refused to secede from the Union?

West Virginia

What are the names of the 11 Confederate states?

Virginia (VA), North Carolina (NC), South Carolina (SC), Georgia (GA), Alabama (AL), Mississippi (MS), Louisiana (LA), Tennessee (TN), Arkansas (AR), Texas (TX), Florida (FL)