Bleeding Kansas (1850s)

created a line at 36'30 of this line whereby North of this latitude would be free and south of the latitude would be slave states, allowed Maine to join as a free state and the other state name in Compromise to join as a slave state

A series of Congressional measures that allowed California to be admitted as a free state and opened much of the territory gained from Mexican-Am. War to be decided by popular sovereignty,and ended slavery in District of Columbia

passed in 1854, allowed new states to VOTE to be free or slave, created the 2 new territories named in the Act, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.

The concept that a States people should vote whether to be a slave state or Free

He created the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln.

a person from Missouri who crossed the border to VOTE illegally to make Kansas a slave state

law that said any runaway slave found ANYWHERE in the US (even the north) was REQUIRED to be returned to their owner

senator who gave a speech called "Crime Against Kansas", was beaten badly with a cane by another senator from the South

Supreme Court case in 1857 that declared African Americans, were NOT citizens of the US

The sight of the federal armory, seized by radical abolitionists and armed negroes who sought to steal weapons for national slave uprising.

The nephew of Senator Andrew Butler who attacked Senator Sumner with a cane in response to his speech

The name given to the time period between 1854-1856 marked by civil unrest regarding the Free or Slave state question, resulting in many lives lost

The name of the Protestant Abolitionist minister who thought the state of Kansas should be taken by rifle, these weapons were referred to _________'s Bibles.

System to secretly hide fugitive slaves in homes and aid them escaping to FREE North

In this Argument, the senate considered how to permit California to the Union without upsetting the balance of free and slave states.

proposed the compromise of 1850

This proposal admitted CA as a free state, and allowed popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War, banned slave trade in District of Columbia

This speech, long litany, issued by the Senator from Massachusetts who spoke out against the south and opposed Kansas as slave state

A series of seven debates arguing issues such as slavery. One of the two won these debates, but the other's position in these debates helped him win in the 1860 presidential election

Famous slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court

Won the election of 1860 through electoral votes, called the "Black Republican"

gave a speech called " the Crime Against Kansas" opponent of slavery, beat with a cane by Preston Brooks after the speech

Radical abolitionist who murdered 5 pro-slavery men in retaliation for the death of 5 anti-slavery men during the Lawrence riots

The U.S. Commander of the Marines who recaptured the arsenal at Harper's Ferry and brought the incident to a close

1835 law passed by Southern congress which made it illegal to talk of abolition or anti-slavery arguments in Congress

Lead the raid at Harper's Ferry

A proslavery military irregular from Missouri who used ambush tactics against Kansans.

Leader of the radical abolitionist