This proposed to outlaw slavery in any territory gained from the war with Mexico
What is Wilmot Proviso
100
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act call for the two states to do?
What is the residents of Kansas and Nebraska vote to decide the issue of slavery
100
Who is the explorer and national hero who became the Republican Party's candidate for president in 1856?
Who is John C. Fremont
100
What was the Democratic Party's platform in the election of 1860?
What is it called for popular sovereignty to decide on slavery in territories
200
Who had the job of winning approval in Congress for the Compromise of 1850?
Who is Stephen A. Davis
200
What was the impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
What is White Southerners charged that the book did not portray slavery accurately
200
What radical abolitionist captured a U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virgina in hopes to sieze weapons for a slave rebellion?
Who is John Brown
200
What happened when the Southern states seceded?
What is they dissolved their ties to the United States
300
What compromise settled the controversy over statehood and the issue of slavery in the other territories gained from Mexico?
What is the Compromise of 1850
300
Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
300
Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who deepened the divisions between North and South with his ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Who is Roger Taney
300
What were the Confederate States of America?
What is the slaveholding states that seceded from the union
400
Who created a plan to settle the issue of statehood for California that satisfied both Northerners and Southerners
Who is Henry Clay
400
Stephen Davis tried to win Southern support for Kansas-Nebraska Act by allowing the issue of slavery in these territories to be settled by what?
What is popular sovereignty
400
Who is the Democrat elected president in 1856 by winning all but one of the slave states?
Who is James Buchanan
400
What did the Crittenden Plan call for?
What is a proposal to save the nation from splitting by compromising on slavery
500
Who supported the Compromise of 1850 in order to keep the nation from breaking apart
Who is Daniel Webster
500
What role did John Brown play in the slavery controversy?
What is murdered several proslavery settlers in Kansas
500
Who is the Illinois Republican who became nationally known because of debated with his opponent during the campaign, although he lost a Senate race in 1858?
Who is Abraham Lincoln
500
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?