Politics
People
Compromises
Vocabulary
Events
100
Many Whigs and Democrats, not satisfied with their party's stance on slavery, banded together to form this party in August, 1848.
What was the free-soil party?
100
The nickname for Henry Clay.
What is The Great Compromiser
100
A compromise signed into law by president Millard Fillmore, with the hopes of avoiding a civil war. The compromise declared Kansas to be a popular sovereignty state, for California to be a free state and banned, but did not outlaw, the slave trade in DC.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
To separate, to disunite.
What is secede?
100
A war that resulted in the acquisition of Texas and California from Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
200
Former president who was the candidate chosen by the free-soil party.
Who was Martin Van Buren?
200
A South Carolina senator who advocated the Fugitive Slave law and believed that the only ways to save the Union was an amendment protecting states' rights or secession.
Who is John Calhoun?
200
A law that required the north to "return" escaped slaves to the south.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
An escapee.
What is a fugitive?
200
Zachary Taylor, a Whig won this election over Martin Van Buren, a free-soil and the democrats' Senator Cass.
What is the election of 1848?
300
Party created in 1854 when the Whigs split apart. Its platform was primarily Anti-Slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
300
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a controversial book about slavery that further widened the gap between the north and the south.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
A fictional, controversial, book depicting slavery that was lauded by the north and criticized by the south.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
False, misleading information used to support a cause or ideology.
What is propaganda?
300
Name of the court ruling that declared a slave was not a citizen and thus not protected by the US Constitution
What is The Dred Scott Decision?
400
A politician who was the Northern Democrats' choice for the 1856 presidential elections.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
Famous leader of a failed slave revolt in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. To the North, he was a hero, but to the south, he was a criminal.
Who is John Brown?
400
This act formed two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, undid the Missouri Compromise and slavery in the new territories was to be decided by popular sovereignty
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
A war that occurs within one country, between its own people.
What is a civil war?
400
This is a fort off the coast of South Carolina where the first battle of the Civil War occurred.
What is Fort Sumter?
500
A republican candidate who won the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
Chief Justice of the supreme court when the court made the decision in 1857 that a slave was a citizen and could not sue for freedom.
Who is Judge Taney?
500
The name for pre-Civil War volience between abolitionists and pro-slavery people in the Kansas territory.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
500
An agreement in which each side concedes something.
What is a compromise?
500
On March, 1860, Jefferson Davis was elected president of this new country, which consisted of southern states who had seceded from the Union.
What is the Confederacy States of America?
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