What was convinced many that slavery was wrong? Increased activity on the Underground Railroad?
100
Shared goal of Free-Soil Party and Republican parties
What was stopping the spread of slavery to the western territories?
100
Southern reaction to Lincoln's election
What was many Southerners felt they no longer had a voice in government and that an abolitionist was in the White House?
100
This happened at the Democratic National Convention in 1860
What was the Democrats split over the slavery issue?
200
How Lincoln received his education
What was he was self-taught?
200
Effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the country
What was widened the division between North and South?
200
Party Lincoln belonged to before he joined the Republican Party
What was the Whig Party?
200
First state to secede from the Union
What was South Carolina?
200
Republican candidate who opposed the spread of slavery to the western territories
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
Lincoln’s occupation before he became involved in politics
What was store owner, lawyer, soldier, blacksmith, postmaster, or politician?
300
Effect of using popular sovereignty in Kansas
What was pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces moved to Kansas to influence the vote or violence in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces (Bleeding Kansas)?
300
Illinois Senator who backed the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who was Stephen Douglas?
300
Deep South states that followed South Carolina in secession
What were Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas?
300
Northern Democrat who favored using popular sovereignty to decide the slavery issue in each territory
Who was Stephen Douglas?
400
Lincoln’s personal view of slavery
What was Lincoln thought slavery was morally wrong?
400
Effect of Kansas - Nebraska Act on the Missouri Compromise
What was made the Missouri Compromise invalid?
400
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Labor force in the North
What was immigrants and nativists?
400
Upper Southern states to leave the Union
What were Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas?
400
600 Southern Democrat who wanted to allow slavery everywhere
Who was John Breckinridge?
500
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Event that made Lincoln a nationally known figure
What was the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
500
Effect of Dred Scott suing for freedom
What was the Court said Scott wasn't a citizen so therefore could not bring about a law suit?
500
Reason the Missouri Compromise would not solve the slavery issue after 1850
What was California's admission to the Union?
500
What seceding states formed
What was the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy?
500
Unique way the election was won
What is Lincoln won without his name on many Southern ballots?