Vocab/Concepts Flashcards
(12 cards)
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney made a machine to clean cotton which made producing cotton much faster
Missouri Compromise
Senator Henry Clay had an idea in 1820
1. Missouri: would enter union as slave state, Maine would enter union as free state-maintaining balance in Senate and Government
2. All of the land in the Louisiana Territorty
- Anything above 36’30 degree line of latitude would be free, and everything below would allow slavery
Abolitionist
A person who was against and tried to end slavery
Popular Sovereignty
Government based on consent of people
Secede
To separate
Compromise of 1850
- California would enter as a free state
- If New Mexico and Utah decided to become states, they would decide on the slavery issure based on popular soverneignty
- Ended slave trade in Washington D.C.
- Settled the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico
Fugitive Slave Act
Required ALL citizens in ALL states to catch runaway slaves
Settled the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico
Kansas-Nebraska Act
- The land north of Missouri Compromise will be divided into:
- Nebraska Territory
- Kansas Territory
- Senator Stephen Douglass created this act: settlers of each area should decide the issue of slavery by popular soverneignty
Bleeding Kasnas
- Pro-slavery men raided the homes of anti-slavery supporters: destroyed homes
- Anti-slavery men struck back by killing 5
- More violence continued in Kansas
- By 1856, more than 200 people were killed
- First time violence occured over issue of slavery…
Election of 1860
- STEPHEN DOUGLASS
- Northern democrat
- Slavery by popular sovereignty
- JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE
- Southern democrat
- Pro-slavery
- JOHN BELL
- Constitutional union party
- No position on slavery
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- Republican (platform anti-slavery)
- Slavery will be left in the South, but can’t spread to the territories
Fort Sumter
Confederate States of America
