Compromise and Conflict in the
early 19th century (early 1800s)
What compromise drew an east-west line
through Louisiana Purchase, with slavery
prohibited above the line and allowed below?
What compromise drew an east-west line
through Louisiana Purchase, with slavery
prohibited above the line and allowed below?
Missouri Compromise (1820)
What was the only state above the
36 30 line that allowed slavery?
What was the only state above the
36 30 line that allowed slavery?
Missouri (MO)
What was the compromise that allowed
California to enter as a free state, while the new
Southwestern territories acquired from Mexico would
decide on their own (popular sovereignty)?
What was the compromise that allowed
California to enter as a free state, while the new
Southwestern territories acquired from Mexico would
decide on their own (popular sovereignty)?
Compromise of 1850
What required slaves who escaped to free states
to be forcibly returned to their owners in the South?
What required slaves who escaped to free states
to be forcibly returned to their owners in the South?
Fugitive Slave Law
What was the result of the
Fugitive Slave Law in the North?
What was the result of the
Fugitive Slave Law in the North?
Northern abolitionist were Outraged, now
the issue of slavery had come home to them
What repealed the Missouri Compromise line by
giving people in Kansas and Nebraska the
choice whether to allow slavery in their states
(“popular sovereignty”)
What repealed the Missouri Compromise line by
giving people in Kansas and Nebraska the
choice whether to allow slavery in their states
(“popular sovereignty”)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
What were 2 results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What were 2 results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Birth of Republican Party (1854)created to oppose the spread of slavery.
“Bleeding Kansas” (1856)Bloody fighting in Kansas as pro- and anti-slavery
forces battled each other. Example: John Brown, radical
abolitionist who went to Kansas to stop the spread of slavery
What Supreme Court decision established that slaves
were property not citizens and that living in free state
did not make you free?
What Supreme Court decision established that slaves
were property not citizens and that living in free state
did not make you free?
Dred Scott decision
Who were the people
in the North who wanted
to end slavery?
Who were the people
in the North who wanted
to end slavery?
Abolitionist
(Hint: See word
“abolish,” meaning
to get rid of,
in abolitionist)
Why were many
Northerners Abolitionist?
Why were many
Northerners Abolitionist?
Many were New England
religious leaders who
saw slavery as a violation
of Christian principles
Who was the Abolitionist
leader who published
the anti-slavery
newspaper,
The Liberator?
Who was the Abolitionist
leader who published
the anti-slavery
newspaper,
The Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
Who was a former slave
who escaped to become the
most prominent black
Abolitionist?
Who was a former slave
who escaped to become the
most prominent black
Abolitionist?
Frederick Douglas
Who was the wife of a
New England clergyman
and wrote the anti-slavery book,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Who was the wife of a
New England clergyman
and wrote the anti-slavery book,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is the result of
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
What is the result of
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Inflamed Northern Abolitionist
sentiment and frightened
Southerners who did not
want to end slavery
What increased fears in Virginia and led to harsh
laws in the South against fugitive slaves?
What increased fears in Virginia and led to harsh
laws in the South against fugitive slaves?
Slave revolts,
in Virginia led by Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser
What happened to Southerners
who favored Abolition?
What happened to Southerners
who favored Abolition?
Intimidated into silence
What movement grew at
the same time as the
Abolitionist movement?
What movement grew at
the same time as the
Abolitionist movement?
Women’s rights
Who were the women
who became involved
in women’s suffrage (voting)
before the Civil War?
Who were the women
who became involved
in women’s suffrage (voting)
before the Civil War?
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What was the declaration that
argued for women’s suffrage
and pulled from the
Declaration of Independence
in declaring, “all men and
women are equal.”
What was the declaration that
argued for women’s suffrage
and pulled from the
Declaration of Independence
in declaring, “all men and
women are equal.”
Seneca Falls Declaration
Who debated for a U.S. Senate in Illinois (1858) and
exposed the issue of slavery dividing the nations?
vs.
Who debated for a U.S. Senate in Illinois (1858) and
exposed the issue of slavery dividing the nations?
vs.
Abraham Lincoln
(Republican)
Stephen Douglas
(Democrat)
What was the difference between Lincoln’s and
Douglas’ view of slavery?
vs.
Abraham Lincoln
(Republican)
Stephen Douglas
(Democrat)
What was the difference between Lincoln’s and
Douglas’ view of slavery?
vs.
Abraham Lincoln
(Republican)
opposes spread of slavery
(“House divided against
itself cannot stand”)
Stephen Douglas
(Democrat)
“popular sovereignty”
(people decide, voting)
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were viewed as a
deciding factor in the election of 1860.
Who was likely to support Lincoln?
Election of Abraham Lincoln (1860)- elected by northern
states. Against spread of slavery but promised not to
interfere with slavery where it already existed.
South Carolina seceded from Union
followed by other Southern states:
Election of Lincoln is “trigger” that results in secession of
lower southern states- feared Lincoln would try to abolish
slavery.
What compromise drew an east-west line
through the Louisiana Purchase, slavery
prohibited above and allowed below?
What compromise drew an east-west line
through the Louisiana Purchase, slavery
prohibited above and allowed below?
What was the only state north of the 36 30
Missouri Compromise line to allow
slavery?
Missouri Compromise (1820)
What compromise drew an east-west line
through the Louisiana Purchase, slavery
prohibited above and allowed below?
Missouri Compromise (1820)
What was the only state north of the 36 30
Missouri Compromise line to allow
slavery?
Missouri
What compromise made California a “free”
state, while the new Southwestern
territories acquired from Mexico would
decide on their own?
What compromise drew an east-west line
through the Louisiana Purchase, slavery
prohibited above and allowed below?
Missouri Compromise (1820)
What was the only state north of the 36 30
Missouri Compromise line to allow
slavery?
Missouri
What compromise made California a “free” Compromise of 1850
state, while the new Southwestern
territories acquired from Mexico would
decide on their own?
What repealed the Missouri Compromise
by giving people in Kansas and Nebraska
the choice whether to allow slavery
(popular sovereignty)?
What compromise drew an east-west line
through the Louisiana Purchase, slavery
prohibited above and allowed below?
Missouri Compromise (1820)
What was the only state north of the 36 30
Missouri Compromise line to allow
slavery?
Missouri
What compromise made California a “free” Compromise of 1850
state, while the new Southwestern
territories acquired from Mexico would
decide on their own?
What repealed the Missouri Compromise
by giving people in Kansas and Nebraska
the choice whether to allow slavery
(popular sovereignty)?
What candidate in the 1858 Illinois Senate
race stood for “popular sovereignty?”
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What compromise drew an east-west line
through the Louisiana Purchase, slavery
prohibited above and allowed below?
Missouri Compromise (1820)
What was the only state north of the 36 30
Missouri Compromise line to allow
slavery?
Missouri
What compromise made California a “free” Compromise of 1850
state, while the new Southwestern
territories acquired from Mexico would
decide on their own?
What repealed the Missouri Compromise
by giving people in Kansas and Nebraska
the choice whether to allow slavery
(popular sovereignty)?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What candidate in the 1858 Illinois Senate
race stood for “popular sovereignty?”
Stephen Douglas (D)
What candidate in the 1858 Illinois Senate
race opposed the expansion of slavery?
What compromise drew an east-west line
through the Louisiana Purchase, slavery
prohibited above and allowed below?
Missouri Compromise (1820)
What was the only state north of the 36 30
Missouri Compromise line to allow
slavery?
Missouri
What compromise made California a “free” Compromise of 1850
state, while the new Southwestern
territories acquired from Mexico would
decide on their own?
What repealed the Missouri Compromise
by giving people in Kansas and Nebraska
the choice whether to allow slavery
(popular sovereignty)?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What candidate in the 1858 Illinois Senate
race stood for “popular sovereignty?”
Stephen Douglas (D)
What candidate in the 1858 Illinois Senate
race opposed the expansion of slavery?
Abraham Lincoln
What were two results of the KansasNebraska Act?
What were two results of the KansasNebraska Act?
What required slaves who escaped to free
states to be forcibly returned to their
owners?
1)
Birth of Republican Party
(oppose the expansion of
slavery)
2) Bloody fighting in Kansas
between pro- and antislavery forces (Bleeding
Kansas)
What were two results of the KansasNebraska Act?
1)
What required slaves who escaped to free
states to be forcibly returned to their
owners?
Fugitive Slave Act
What decision overturned efforts to limit
the spread of slavery by ruling living in a
“free” state did not make a slave “free?”
Birth of Republican Party
(oppose the expansion of
slavery)
2) Bloody fighting in Kansas
between pro- and antislavery forces (Bleeding
Kansas)
What were two results of the KansasNebraska Act?
1)
What required slaves who escaped to free
states to be forcibly returned to their
owners?
Fugitive Slave Act
What decision overturned efforts to limit
the spread of slavery by ruling living in a
“free” state did not make a slave “free?”
Dred Scott decision
What was the term given to individuals
who saw slavery as a violation of Christian
principles?
Birth of Republican Party
(oppose the expansion of
slavery)
2) Bloody fighting in Kansas
between pro- and antislavery forces (Bleeding
Kansas)
What were two results of the KansasNebraska Act?
1)
What required slaves who escaped to free
states to be forcibly returned to their
owners?
Fugitive Slave Act
What decision overturned efforts to limit
the spread of slavery by ruling living in a
“free” state did not make a slave “free?”
Dred Scott decision
What was the term given to individuals
who saw slavery as a violation of Christian
principles?
Abolitionists
Who was a famous abolitionist who
published an anti-slavery newspaper
called The Liberator?
Birth of Republican Party
(oppose the expansion of
slavery)
2) Bloody fighting in Kansas
between pro- and antislavery forces (Bleeding
Kansas)
What were two results of the KansasNebraska Act?
1)
Birth of Republican Party
(oppose the expansion of
slavery)
2) Bloody fighting in Kansas
between pro- and antislavery forces (Bleeding
Kansas)
What required slaves who escaped to free
states to be forcibly returned to their
owners?
Fugitive Slave Act
What decision overturned efforts to limit
the spread of slavery by ruling living in a
“free” state did not make a slave “free?”
Dred Scott decision
What was the term given to individuals
who saw slavery as a violation of Christian
principles?
Abolitionists
Who was a famous abolitionist who
published an anti-slavery newspaper
called The Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
Who was the wife of a New England
clergyman and author of a best-selling
novel that inflamed Northern abolitionist
sentiment?
Who was the wife of a New England
clergyman and author of a best-selling
novel that inflamed Northern abolitionist
sentiment?
What anti-slavery novel did Harriet
Beecher Stowe write?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who was the wife of a New England
clergyman and author of a best-selling
novel that inflamed Northern abolitionist
sentiment?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What anti-slavery novel did Harriet
Beecher Stowe write?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What fed white fears about slave rebellions
and led to harsh laws in the South against
fugitive slaves?
Who was the wife of a New England
clergyman and author of a best-selling
novel that inflamed Northern abolitionist
sentiment?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What anti-slavery novel did Harriet
Beecher Stowe write?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What fed white fears about slave rebellions Slave revolts, Nat Turner and
and led to harsh laws in the South against Gabriel Prosser
fugitive slaves?
What happened to Southerners who
favored abolition?
Who was the wife of a New England
clergyman and author of a best-selling
novel that inflamed Northern abolitionist
sentiment?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What anti-slavery novel did Harriet
Beecher Stowe write?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What fed white fears about slave rebellions Slave revolts, Nat Turner and
and led to harsh laws in the South against Gabriel Prosser
fugitive slaves?
What happened to Southerners who
favored abolition?
What movement grew at the same time as
the abolitionist movement?
Intimidated into silence
Who was the wife of a New England
clergyman and author of a best-selling
novel that inflamed Northern abolitionist
sentiment?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What anti-slavery novel did Harriet
Beecher Stowe write?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What fed white fears about slave rebellions Slave revolts, Nat Turner and
and led to harsh laws in the South against Gabriel Prosser
fugitive slaves?
What happened to Southerners who
favored abolition?
Intimidated into silence
What movement grew at the same time as
the abolitionist movement?
Women’s rights
(suffrage, voting)
Who were two women who led the
women’s rights movement during the 19th
century?
Who was the wife of a New England
clergyman and author of a best-selling
novel that inflamed Northern abolitionist
sentiment?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What anti-slavery novel did Harriet
Beecher Stowe write?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What fed white fears about slave rebellions Slave revolts, Nat Turner and
and led to harsh laws in the South against Gabriel Prosser
fugitive slaves?
What happened to Southerners who
favored abolition?
Intimidated into silence
What movement grew at the same time as
the abolitionist movement?
Women’s rights
(suffrage, voting)
Who were two women who led the
women’s rights movement during the 19th
century?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony
What declaration pulled from the
Declaration of Independence in saying that
“all men and women are created equal?”
What declaration pulled from the
Seneca Falls Declaration
Declaration of Independence in saying that
“all men and women are created equal?”
Who was a slave who escaped to become
one of the most vocal abolitionist?
What declaration pulled from the
Seneca Falls Declaration
Declaration of Independence in saying that
“all men and women are created equal?”
Who was a slave who escaped to become
one of the most vocal abolitionist?
What was considered a deciding factor in
the election of 1860?
Frederick Douglas
What declaration pulled from the
Seneca Falls Declaration
Declaration of Independence in saying that
“all men and women are created equal?”
Who was a slave who escaped to become
one of the most vocal abolitionist?
Frederick Douglas
What was considered a deciding factor in
the election of 1860?
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Who said in the Lincoln-Douglas debates
that “A House Divided against itself Cannot
Stand?”
What declaration pulled from the
Seneca Falls Declaration
Declaration of Independence in saying that
“all men and women are created equal?”
Who was a slave who escaped to become
one of the most vocal abolitionist?
Frederick Douglas
What was considered a deciding factor in
the election of 1860?
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Who said in the Lincoln-Douglas debates
Abraham Lincoln
that “A House Divided against itself Cannot
Stand?”
What issue was Lincoln referring to when
he said, “a house divided against itself
cannot stand?”
What declaration pulled from the
Seneca Falls Declaration
Declaration of Independence in saying that
“all men and women are created equal?”
Who was a slave who escaped to become
one of the most vocal abolitionist?
Frederick Douglas
What was considered a deciding factor in
the election of 1860?
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Who said in the Lincoln-Douglas debates
Abraham Lincoln
that “A House Divided against itself Cannot
Stand?”
What issue was Lincoln referring to when
he said, “a house divided against itself
cannot stand?”
What happened when Abraham Lincoln
was elected President of the U.S. in 1860?
Slavery, the country could not
continue to be divided half
slave and half free
What declaration pulled from the
Seneca Falls Declaration
Declaration of Independence in saying that
“all men and women are created equal?”
Who was a slave who escaped to become
one of the most vocal abolitionist?
Frederick Douglas
What was considered a deciding factor in
the election of 1860?
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Who said in the Lincoln-Douglas debates
Abraham Lincoln
that “A House Divided against itself Cannot
Stand?”
What issue was Lincoln referring to when
he said, “a house divided against itself
cannot stand?”
Slavery, the country could not
continue to be divided half
slave and half free
What happened when Abraham Lincoln
Lower Southern states
was elected President of the U.S. in 1860? seceded (broke away)
because they feared he would
abolish slavery