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He won the election of 1860.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
These two states were admitted after the The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was approved. One a free state and a a slave state.
What are Maine and Missouri?
Agricultural versus manufactural
What were the economies of the North and South?
This Compromise kept a balance of political power between slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Periods of decline in economic activity.
What is a recession?
This slave sued for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
This state entered the Union as a free state in violation of the Missouri Compromise.
What is California?
A network of secret routes and safe houses for run away slaves.
What was the Underground Railroa?
This act allowed authorities in one state to order the return of run away slaves to another state.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793?
Someone who wants to abolish slavery.
What is an abolitionists?
She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman.
This state was Lincoln’s home state.
What is Illinois?
This political party brought together members fron the Whig, Democratic, and Liberty parties.
What was the Free Soil Party?
This Privoso prevented slavery in territories acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The right of local citizens to determine their own laws.
What is popular sovereignty?
He led an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia.
Who was John Brown?
This state was the first to secede.
What is South Carolina?
It was an anti slave novel.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This slave act punished anyone who helped a run away slave to escape.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Homes that helped the runaway slaves.
What are depots?
He debated Lincoln and won the Illinois senatorial race.
Who was Stephan Douglas?
This state was split between two opposing state governments.
What is Kanasas?
This party was formed by members from the other parties because they were fed up with their party’s support of southern causes.
What was the Republican Party?
This Compromise repealed the Missouri.
What was the Kansas Nebraska Act?
Those that opposed foreign immigratio.
Who were the Nativist?