People
Places
Events
North
South
100
Who was elected president of the United States in 1860 which caused many in the south to be angry?
Abraham Lincoln
100
In 1854, Congress passed a law that allowed settlers in these territories to decide for themselves what to do about slavery, a concept known as popular sovereignty. What territories were these?
Kansas and Nebraska
100

The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all DELAYED THE INEVITABLE. What does that mean?

put off actually dealing with Slavery

100
Free northerners tried to move into Kansas but were attacked by...

Border Ruffians

100

true or false: Southerners liked the Fugitive Slave Law

TRUE

200

Who was vehemently against slavery, tried to start a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, and killed 5 border ruffians in Kansas

John Brown

200

Where did Sumner and Brooks fight?

The US Capitol (in the Senate)

200

violence in the midwest thanks to popular sovereignty and border ruffians that foreshadowed the Civil War

Bleeding Kansas

200
Though many farms still existed in the north, more and more of its economy was becoming based on what?
Manufacturing (or factories.)
200

How many southern states voted for Abraham Lincoln

0

300

Who gave a 5 hour long speech about how dumb the south/slavery was and then got caned nearly to death?

Charles Sumner

300
Which part of the country felt that state governments should have more power than the federal government?
South
300
The Fugitive Slave Law required people to do what (even if they disagreed with slavery)?
Return runaway slaves to their owners.
300

Northerners look at John Brown as a 

hero/martyr

300

word that means to drop out or leave the country

secede

400

Who sued for his freedom and the Supreme Court said he is not a citizen and has no rights?

Dred Scott
400
Name at least two places that runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad headed to.
The North, Canada, Caribbean, Mexico.
400
The Dred Scott decision was a blow to the abolitionist movement. Why?
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property, no matter where their owners took them.
400

Describe what popular sovereignty is.

The right of people to vote on whether the state is free or slave

400

Name at the first state that seceded from the country

South Carolina

500

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

500
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
500

California free; DC bans slave trade; strict fugitive slave law

The Compromise of 1850

500

Name the book that convinced many in the North that slavery was wrong.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

500

Which event would have made the South the happiest-the writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Brown's Raid, or the Dred Scott Decision? Why?

Dred Scott. Now slave owners could take their slaves ANYWHERE they wanted as slaves were considered PROPERTY.

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