Growing tensions (AQA GCSE History): Flashcards
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Year of Missouri Compromise
Year of Missouri Compromise
1820
Missouri Compromise line (latitude)
Missouri Compromise line (latitude)
36°30' parallel
Free state admitted with Missouri in 1820
Free state admitted with Missouri in 1820
Maine
Year of Nat Turner's Rebellion
Year of Nat Turner's Rebellion
1831
Deaths caused by Nat Turner's Rebellion
Deaths caused by Nat Turner's Rebellion
51 white people
Southern response to Nat Turner's Rebellion
Southern response to Nat Turner's Rebellion
Harsher laws restricting enslaved people
State admitted as free in Compromise of 1850
State admitted as free in Compromise of 1850
California
Controversial law in Compromise of 1850
Controversial law in Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin sold
Copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin sold
270,000
Concept introduced by Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Concept introduced by Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act's effect on Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act's effect on Missouri Compromise
Destroyed/undermined it
Location of John Brown's 1859 raid
Location of John Brown's 1859 raid
Harpers Ferry, Virginia