These two territories would get to decide for themselves if they would allow slavery.
What is New Mexico and Utah?
100
New law passed to help slave owners recover runaways.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
100
Name for the project intended to connect the east and west coast.
What is Transcontinental Railroad?
100
Idea that new territories should decide from themselves whether of not they wanted to permit slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
When California became a state, there were this many states in the USA.
What is 31 states?
200
This person was the most famous rescuer of slaves.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
Senator who drafted the Kansas Nebraska Act.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
200
Name for the 80,000 people who migrated to California in the late 1800s.
What is Forty-Niners?
300
This was the name of a representative from Pennsylvania who proposed that no slavery shall exist in the territory obtained from Mexico.
Who is David Wilmot?
300
Name of the writer and the book that led Abraham Lincoln to say "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War!"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed this law.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
In the cartoon with the house burning out the rats, he is depicted setting the cabin on fire.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
400
This political party emerged as a combination of the Liberty party, anti-slavery Democrats and the Conscience Whigs.
What is the Free Soil Party?
400
He was the Senator who established the concept of Popular Sovereignty.
Who is Lewis Cass?
400
Stephen Douglas' preferred route for the train would go through these three cities.
What is Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco?
400
He led a massacre, with swords, against proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek.
Who is John Brown?
500
Name of the two men who served as President during the negotiation of, and agreement to the Compromise of 1850
Who is Zachary Taylor and Millard Filmore?
500
He was nicknamed the "Great Compromiser" thanks to his work on the Missouri Compromise and the Nullification Crisis, and his series of resolutions for the Compromise of 1850 attempted to ease the slavery issue once again.
Who is Henry Clay?
500
In Bleeding Kansas, this term was used for Missourians who voted illegally in Kansas for pro-slavery causes.
Who are Border Ruffians?
500
Senator and Abolitionist from Massachusetts who was beaten by a cane.