Compromise or Conflict
This 1820 agreement attempted to preserve sectional balance by admitting one slave state and one free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A radical abolitionist who called the Constitution a “covenant with death” and favored immediate emancipation.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The violent struggle in Kansas that demonstrated the failure of popular sovereignty.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The Union’s initial primary war aim in 1861.
What is preserve the Union?
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This failed 1846 proposal revealed growing Northern resistance to the expansion of slavery.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The doctrine articulated by Stephen Douglas to reconcile popular sovereignty with Dred Scott.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
The brutal 1856 assault on a U.S. senator symbolizing the breakdown of civil discourse.
What is the caning of Charles Sumner?
This 1863 document reframed the war as a struggle over slavery while remaining a military measure.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These Southern laws attempted to control Black labor and mobility after emancipation.
What are Black Codes?
This 1850 law most directly radicalized Northern opinion by forcing citizens to assist in enforcing slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This 1858 speech argued the nation could not endure permanently half slave and half free.
What is "House Divided"?
This 1859 raid intensified Southern fears of slave insurrection and Northern abolitionism.
Lincoln justified expanded executive authority using this constitutional power during the war.
What is suspension of habeas corpus?
This federal agency provided education, legal aid, and labor assistance to freedpeople.
This proposed constitutional amendment sought to permanently protect slavery south of 36°30′ but failed in Congress.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
This Republican-affiliated political organization alarmed Southerners through its disciplined mass mobilization in 1860.
What are Wide Awakes?
The 1854 fugitive slave whose forced return under federal guard shocked Northern public opinion.
Who is Anthony Burns?
This strategy relied on economic strangulation and sustained pressure rather than decisive early victories.
What is war of attrition?
Also acceptable: Anaconda Plan
This political bargain effectively ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This Kansas constitution exposed the collapse of popular sovereignty and split the Democratic Party.
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
This Supreme Court decision denied Black citizenship and limited congressional authority over slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This incident formally transformed sectional crisis into open rebellion against federal authority.
What is Fort Sumter?
This 1864 event demonstrated Northern commitment to continuing the war despite heavy casualties.
What is Lincoln's re-election?
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?