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100
people holding opinions not held by the majority
What is an extremist?
100
became the 16th President of the US
Who is Lincoln?
100
non resident border ruffians came to this territory to vote on the question of slavery
What is the Bleeding Kansas incident
100
new political party formed to ban slavery in the new territories. Motto was free land....
What is the Free Soil Party?
100
escaped slave who worked the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
to free
What is to emancipate?
200
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
led to the secession of the first state
What is the presidential election of 1860?
200
event that prompted 6 more southern states to secede from the Union
What is the inauguration of President Lincoln?
200
novel that changed the way people viewed slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
a group of states that formed a country following their secession from the US
What is the Confederacy?
300
presidential candidate for the Northern Democratic Party in 1860
Who is Stephen Douglas?
300
allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
fine of $1,000 and a 6 month jail term
What is penalty for breaking the Fugitive Slave Law?
300
capital of the CSA
What is Richmond?
400
people who wanted to abolish slaver
What is an abolitionist?
400
the provisional and later elected president of the CSA
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
ended the slave trade in Washington DC
What is Compromise of 1850?
400
Supreme Court decision that held that slaves were not citizens and therefore could not sue in court
What is the SCt v. Dred Scott?
400
SC Senator who believed the Federal gov't had NO right to ban slavery in the new territories
Who is John C Calhoun?
500
a veto of a portion but not all of a proposed law
What is a line-item veto?
500
led the raid on Harpers Ferry
Who is John Brown?
500
12/April/1861
What is the beginning of the Civil War?
500
Federal fort in a seceded state that became the site of the first shots of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
500
the idea of allowing people decide on issues such as whether to permit slavery in their territory
What is popular sovereignty?
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