This event was the "final straw" for the South, leading them to secession.
What is Lincoln's election of 1860
100
It was here where John Brown took over a federal aresenal in hopes to distribute weapons to slaves to inspire slaves to rebell and fight for their freedom.
What is Harpers Ferry
100
This woman is well known for her role as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
This book greatly influenced the Northern abolitionist movement by creating scenes of Southern life of slaves on plantations.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
100
This term reffers to the actions of the South after the Election of 1860. This is when a state breaks away from the greater Union to form its own country.
What is seccession
200
One of the "first" series of events that would upset the South. A mandate was proposed to make slavery illegal in territories gained from the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso
200
It is in these places that the issue of slavery was the Hot Button issue...not the South.
What are the territories.
200
This woman wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Lincoln talking to Stowe said this: "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
This term reffers to the group of northerners that wanted to see slavery ended.
What are abolitionists.
200
This reffers to the series of stops and the escorts that helped slaves escape to freedom.
What is the underground railroad.
300
This is the practice (strongly pushed by Stephen Douglas of Ill.) of allowing new states to decide on their practice of slavery.
What is popular sovereignty.
300
It is in this territory where blood was spilled in a "pre-Civil War" over whether to become a free or slave state.
What is Kansas Territory (Bleeding Kansas)
300
This abolitionist became famous for his actions at the Pattawatomie Massacre and Harpers Ferry, Va.
Who is John Brown
300
These helped slaves carry cadence while working and have withstood the test of time to influence Jazz, the Blues, and Hip-Hop.
What are slave spirituals
300
This term referrs to the belief of the "Know-Nothing Party" which favors natural Americans over immigrants.
What is nativism
400
This mandate by the Supreme Court declared the Missouri Compromise to be "unconstitutional"...which Northerners saw as a loop hole allowing slavery in the Free States. This idea states that slavery cannot be limited.
What is the Dredd Scott Decision.
400
This state would have been cut in half by the Missouri Compromise line but according to the Comp. of 1850 was a free state.
What is California
400
This slave is responsible for bringing about a Court Case that would stretch the tension between the North and South almost to the point of popping.
Who is Dredd Scott
400
This was the name of the Abolitionist newspaper that William Loyd Garrison published. This paper also influenced well known abolitionists such as Frederick Douglas
What is "The Liberator"
400
This term referrs to the South's belief that the National government could not legally limit slavery. The South believed in the concept of this term.
What is state's rights.
500
This event would lead to the strengthening of the Republican party. Violence would push many northern americans against the issue of slavery in the territories.
What is Bleeding Kansas
500
These are the states that would originally secceed from the Union
What are South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
500
This Southern representative is responsible for the beating of a Northern representative on the House floor.
Who is Charles Sumner
500
It was this religious movement that sparked the growth of passionate Christianity around the Nation in the 1830's. This movement would lead to the spread of abolitionist beliefs in the North.
What is the Second Great Awakening.
500
This is the term that reffers to the laws that forbade the capture of slaves. Nine northern states passed these laws