Congress Attempts to Compromise
The law passed by Congress that allowed the people of each new territory or state to decide themselves whether to free of slave.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Harriet Beecher is known for this.
Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This set the stage for Abraham Lincoln's presidential candidacy.
What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
Which 6 Southern states seceded first after Lincoln was elected?
Ft. Sumter, Charleston , South Carolina
Where was the first shot of the Civil War?
The law passed by Congress that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and the Fugitive Slave law was enacted.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The name of the enslaved man who sued for his freedom because he had lived in a free state.
Nickname for Abraham Lincoln.
Who was the "Rail Splitter?"
The effect the election of Lincoln as president had on the Southern states.
What event finally made the Southern states secede from the Union?
The name of the Confederate commander who fired on Ft. Sumter.
Who was Pierre G. T. Beauregard?
The law passed by Congress admitting Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and an imaginary line separated new states as free or slave.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Determined that Dred Scott would not get his freedom because slaves were not citizens of the United States, they were considered property and property could be taken anywhere.
Who was the Supreme Court?
Someone once said, "If each state will only agree to mind its own business...this republic can exist forever divided into free and slave states."
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Sent 7500 federal troops to put down the Confederate rebellion.
What did Abraham Lincoln do after the Confederates attacked Ft. Sumter?
What is "Bleeding Kansas?"
The reaction of many Americans especially in the North over Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Dred Scott Decision.
What is anger and outrage over slavery issues?
Someone once said, "We must not be enemies."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
That is the main difference between the US Constitution and the constitution of the Confederacy?
The Confederate constitution protected slavery and the US Constitution did not.
These states, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky, were slaves states but remained loyal to the Union.
What were the border states?
The effect that the Kansas-Nebraska Act had on the Missouri Compromise.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act illuminated the dividing line of the Missouri Compromise separating new states as free or slave.
The effect of the Dred Scott Decision over the existence of slavery in the whole country.
What is, slavery could now exit everywhere?
This is what Lincoln and Douglas agreed upon.
What is, keeping the Union together and avoiding war?
Someone states, "The Southern states should look forward to success, to peace, and to prosperity."
What is a quote of Jefferson Davis?
Lincoln's goal or aim at the beginning of the Civil War.
What was, to hold the United States together.