Unit 1: A Newly Divided Nation (1820-1860)

John Brown

________: an abolitionist who killed five pro- slavery men in the Pottawatomie Massacre, causing a collapse in the territory.

Henry Clay

1850- Compromise of 1850: ________ neutralized the nation using his compromise of creating federal land of the Mexican Cession, later decided by popular sovereignty.

Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin

________ sought to speak out against the act of slavery in the Southern states, reaching its message to hundreds of thousands of abolitionists.

Fugitive Slave Act

1850- ________: outlawed the act of African- American slaves escaping from the South or accused free African- American citizens.

Nebraska Act

Kansas- ________ 1854: Stephen Douglas introduced a bill in Congress to divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into Kansas and Nebraska.

Popular sovereignty

a unanimous decision made by the people

Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

Stephen Douglas introduced a bill in Congress to divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into Kansas and Nebraska

John Brown

an abolitionist who killed five pro-slavery men in the Pottawatomie Massacre, causing a collapse in the territory