Vocab
Who's Who
Location, Location
Compromises
Parties and Platfroms
100
What is "To officially leave an organization"?
Secede
100
Who was the winner of the 1860 presidential election?
Abraham Lincoln
100
This state was the first to secede from the United States
South Carolina
100
The ____________ Compromise of 1820 was created so that this state could enter as a slave state
What is Missouri?
100
Party of Abraham Lincoln which wanted to stop the spread of slavery.
Republican
200
What is "A place to store weapons and military equipment"?
Arsenal
200
Who was a slave that sued for his freedom and that the Supreme Court ruled he was property and not a citizen?
Dred Scott
200
This west coast state entered the Union as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850.
California
200
This is the concept that a State’s people should vote whether to be a slave state or free
What is popular sovereignty?
200
This was the main topic of the Lincoln=Douglas debates?
What is the legality of slavery in new states
300
What is "A person who dies for a great cause?"
Martyr
300
Who ran against Lincoln in the Senate election of 1858 and the Presidential election of 1860?
Stephen Douglas
300
This is the federal arsenal where John Brown led a raid to arm slaves.
Harpers Ferry
300
This law could said a person be fined or imprisoned for helping a runaway slave.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
300
This was Abraham Lincoln highest priority when taking office?
Keeping the Union together
400
What is "armed pro-slavery supporter who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas?"
Border Ruffian
400
Who was the abolitionist who murdered 5 pro-slavery settlers in Kansas which led to more violence and also led a raid on Harpers Ferry?
John Brown
400
This term given for violence and fighting over the vote on slavery in a territory organized in 1854. (Two words, includes a state)
Bleeding Kansas
400
Stephen Douglas proposed using popular sovereignty in this law that determined the issue of slavery in two Midwest territories about to become states
What is the Nebraska-Kansas Act
400
This political party spilt in the 1860 Presidential election with the Northern half going to Stephen Douglas and the Southern to John Breckinridge
What is the Democratic party?
500
What is "Loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country"
Sectionalism
500
He was attacked on the floor of the Senate for condemning slavery and criticizing supporters of slavery
Charles Sumner
500
This is the city where the slave trade was banned as part of the Compromise of 1850.
Washington DC
500
This proposal, from a PA House Rep, called for the ban of slavery in all lands acquired from Mexico
What is Wilmot Proviso?
500
This is what Abraham Lincoln gain from the Lincoln-Douglas debate
What is a national reputation?
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