North vs. South
The Compromise of 1850
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Slavery in Politics
The Election of Lincoln
100
What is the placing of one’s own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole?
Sectionalism
100
What was the series of laws passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states? This law admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and set the boundary between slave and free sections of the territories at the 36 30 parallel.
Missouri Compromise
100
What law nullified the Missouri Compromise?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
100
Who was the senator that Preston S. Brooks hit in the head with a cane as retaliation for criticizing Brooks’ uncle’s support of slavery?
Charles Sumner
100
What caused an increase in nativism between 1830 and 1860?
An increase in the number of Catholic immmigrants
200
Which region was in favor of slavery? Which region was against slavery?
South, North
200
What was the major effect of the 1820 Missouri Compromise with regards to the slavery debate?
It quieted the slavery debate for a generation.
200
What was a law, enacted in 1854, that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
200
What happened in the Dred Scott decision?
Dred Scott lost-He was forced to remain a slave
200
What type of people did the Know-Nothing Party from the 1850s favor?
They favored native-born Americans over immigrants
300
Which region’s economy was based on factories, especially textile factories? Which region’s economy was based mainly on farming/agriculture?
North, South
300
What was the series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states, including admitting California as a free state, allowing Utah and New Mexico to decide whether or not they wanted slavery, settling the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico, outlawing the sale of slaves in the District of Columbia, and establishing the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Compromise of 1850
300
Who was responsible for creating the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Henry Clay
300
What was Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney’s reasoning for ruling that Dred Scott needed to remain a slave?
Slaves were property so masters were able to move their property wherever they wanted
300
What was the political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into the US territories?
The Free-Soil Party
400
Which region transported goods on rivers or other waterways? Which region transported goods mainly on railroads?
South, North
400
Who was responsible for coming up with the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
400
What was a name applied to the Kansas Territory in the years before the Civil War, when the territory was a battleground between pro-slavery and antislavery forces?
Bleeding Kansas
400
What law did the Dred Scott Decision nullify?
The Missouri Compromise
400
Which political party was founded in 1854 and eventually led to the Election of 1860 of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War?
The Republican Party
500
Which region had many immigrants? Which region had few immigrants?
North, South
500
What was the system in which the residents voted to decide about whether slavery should exist in a territory?
Popular Sovereignty
500
Who was the famous leader of the anti-slavery forces during Bleeding Kansas who the northerners thought was a hero and saint? This man then led an attack on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry during which he was captured and hanged.
John Brown
500
What was the major topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Slavery in the territories
500
What is the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union?
Secession
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