Vocabulary
People
Causes Category 1
Causes Category 2
Causes Category 3
100
This means involuntary servitude or forcing to work.
What is Slavery?
100

This man proposed both the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.

Who is Henry Clay?
100
This is the year that the Northern states end the practice of slavery.
When is 1804?
100
This is number of debates Stephen Douglas had with Abraham Lincoln across the state of Illinois.
What are 7 (7 debates)?
100
This is the number of states that seceded from the Union after Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States in 1860.
What is 11 (11 States)?
200

This means a loyalty to a part of the country.

What is Sectionalism?

200

1. This man was the Union Army Major of Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.

2. This man participated in violent acts happening in "Bleeding Kansas," and he led a raid on Harpers Ferry to gain weapons for a slave uprising/revolt.  Most Northerners viewed him as a hero while most Southerners viewed him as a villain.

1. Who is Major Robert Anderson?

2. Who is John Brown?
200

This is the name of the city that the Compromise of 1850 brought an end to the slave trade within this city.

What is Washington, D.C.?
200
This is what Kansas was nicknamed because many people were getting killed over the issue of Kansas entering the Union as a free state or a slave state.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
200

This is the name the states that seceded from the Union called their nation.

What is Confederate States of America?
300
This is a series of secret routes and buildings where slaves hid while escaping North to gain freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
1. This man sued for his and his family's freedom from slavery.


2. This man was the Chief Justice when #1's case made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

1. Who is Dred Scott?


2. Who is Chief Justice Roger Taney?

300
Senator Charles Sumner criticized Senator Andrew Butler.  Butler's nephew, Congressman Preston Brooks, beat Sumner with a cane. The incident in Congress proved that this causes violence. 
What is Slavery?
300

The Dred Scott Case ruling was that all slaves are ____________ and NOT _____________.

What is property and NOT citizens?
300
This is the law that required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves and send them back to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
400

1. This is a person who wanted to end slavery in the United States.



2. This is a slave that runs away from his/her owner to find freedom.


1. Who is an Abolitionist?



2. Who is a Fugitive?


400
1. This man was the Northern Democrat candidate in the election of 1860. He also proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.  He stood for popular sovereignty. 


2. This man was the Republican candidate in the election of 1860.  He won the presidency in 1860.  He did not want slavery to spread into the new territories.

1. Who is Stephen Douglas?


2. Who is Abraham Lincoln?

400
This state entered the Union as a free state and this other state entered the Union as a slave state under the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
What are Maine and Missouri?
400
This is the significance of the attack on Fort Sumter.
What is it marks the beginning of the American Civil War?
400

1. This is the number of copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin that were sold in the first year after it was published.

2. This is what the Uncle Tom's Cabin novel forced people to see slavery as.

 
1. What is 300,000 (300,000 copies)?


2. What is a moral issue?

500
1. This means to break away from the Union.


2. This means the people of a territory would decided for themselves if the lands would be free or slave.

1. What is Secession?


2. What is Popular Sovereignty?

500

1. This man was the candidate for the Constitutional Party in the election of 1860.

2. This man was the candidate for the Southern Democrat Party in the election of 1860.

1. Who is John Bell?


2. Who is John Breckinridge?

500
This is the reason slaves headed either to Canada or Mexico when they escaped on the Underground Railroad from slavery.
What is slavery was already outlawed in these two countries?
500
This is how the people of the Nebraska territory and Kansas territory decide on whether to be a free state or a slave state.
What is using popular sovereignty (the voters would vote on it)?
500
This is how the Dred Scott Decision change slavery in the United States.
What is slaves could be taken into free states because they are considered property (slavery would be all over the United States)?
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