Terms
What is the term for the idea that people get to decide an issue by voting?
Popular sovereignty
Who led a raid on a federal weapons supply in Virginia before being captured, convicted, and executed?
John Brown
What name is given to the violence in Kansas before the Civil War over the issue of slavery?
Bleeding Kansas
Which compromise stated that any new territory or state north of 360 latitude would be free land?
Missouri Compromise
What is the other name for the "war between the states"?
Civil War
What is the term for division of the country over an issue?
Sectionalism
Who was the president of the United States before the Civil War?
James Buchanan
Identify the two territories added as free territories according to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
Kansas and Nebraska
Which law was adapted to maintain the balance of free and slave holding states in the United States Senate?
Compromise of 1850
Which state was the first to secede from the United States in 1860?
South Carolina
What is the term for a weapons storage facility?
Arsenal
Who was president of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Which city in Kansas was the site of bloodshed before the Civil War?
Lawrence, Kansas
Which law stated that the territory north of the Missouri Compromise would be added as free territory?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
How many states formed the Union during the Civil War?
23
What is the term for the group of states who seceded from the United States and formed their own country?
Confederacy
Who sued because he was enslaved in a state which did not allow slavery?
Dred Scott
Where was the capital of the United States during the Civil War?
Washington, D.C.
According to the Compromise of 1850, which state was added to the United States as a free state?
California
Name the 3 border states which did not secede from the United States in the 1860s.
Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland.
Which Supreme Court case stated that Congress did not have the right to outlaw slavery in U.S. territories?
Dred Scott case
Who was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Where was the capital of the Confederacy?
Richmond, Virginia
According to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which two states would be added to the United States?
Maine and Missouri
Fort Sumter, South Carolina