Policy and Compromises
Abolitionist
Conflicts
Election of 1860
Secession
100

What is another name for the Compromise of 1820?

Missouri Compromise

100

Name of famous anti-slavery novel?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

100

What town did pro-slavery settlers sack in Kansas?

Lawrence

100

Who won the election of 1860?

Abe Lincoln

100

What was the first state to secede?

South Carolina


200

What state was declared a free state in the Compromise of 1850?

California

200

Who was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad?

Harriet Tubman

200

Why was the Fugitive Slave Act so upsetting to Abolitionist?

Allowed the arrest of runaway slaves in Free – states to be sent back to the South

Federal crime to help a slave escape

Blacks had to carry paperwork proving free status



200

Name the 4 candidates of the election?

Abraham Lincoln

Stephen Douglas

John Breckinridge

John Bell

200

What were the 4 border slave states that stayed in the Union?

MO, KY, MD, DE

300

Who were the Pro-Slavery activist that went into Kansas to intimate voters?

Border Ruffians

300

Who founded the "Liberator", one of the first anti slavery newspapers?

William Lloyd Garrison

300

What happened at Pottawatomie Creek in Kanas Territory?

John Brown and his sons executed 5 pro-slavery settlers.

300

What party split and nominated two candidates?

Democratic Party

300

Why did the South (Confederacy) want to take over Fort Sumter?

To remove union presence from the South

400

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was centered on what policy/idea?

Popular Sovereignty 

400

What laws did abolitionist help pass after the fugitive slave act?

Personal Liberty laws

400

How was order restored in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory?

Federal troops

400

What parts of the government did the Republicans control after the election?

House of rep., Senate, Executive (President) 

400

Who was appointed to be the leader of the Confederate army?

Robert E. Lee

500

What major event in 1857 set the precedent that black Americans were not citizens and did not have protections under the Constitution.  

Dred Scott Case

500

What abolitionist told John Brown that he would not help him with his plan to raid Harpers Ferry?

Frederick Douglass

500

What was the reported mental illness that caused slaves to attempt to escape?

Drapetomania

500

What document did South Carolina write after the election? 

SC Declaration of Independence

500

When/Why did Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia finally secede from the Union?

The rush to arms after the battle at Fort Sumter

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