This ordinance allowed Michigan to enter as a free state.
What is The Northwest Ordinance.
100
The Republican Party's main belief.
What is to abolish slavery
100
The name of people who are strongly against slavery.
What is an abolitionist
100
I can buy land, start my own business, and vote.
What is a white man
100
This agreement over land made the Fugitive Slave Act stronger to please the South.
What is the Compromise of 1850
200
The Compromise of 1850 allowed this territory to enter as a free state.
What is California
200
When the South officially left the Union, they did this.
What is seceded.
200
I am an extreme abolitionist who murdered Southerners in Kansas and attempted to start a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown
200
I have no rights and am owned.
What is a slave
200
Slaves were considered protected "property" that could not be taken away according to this court case.
What is the Dred Scott case
300
This act let the people vote to see if the territories would be free or slave, and created a "bloody" situation.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
300
During the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled this about all African Americans.
What is they are not considered citizens.
300
This secret system had conductors and passengers. Harriet Tubman was a major part of it.
What is The Underground Railroad
300
I have some freedoms, but am still considered a second class citizen.
What is free African American
300
Michigan's easy access to this country made it an extremely important free state for runaway slaves.
What is Canada
400
Under this act, runaway slaves did not get a trial by jury, couldn't testify in court, and any African American without papers could be captured and sent to slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
400
Calhoun and the South believed that this belief was the way the United States should be divided.
What is sectionalism
400
This was a planned attack on a federal arsenal with the attempt to arm slaves and start a slave rebellion.
What is Harper's Ferry
400
I am the President of the United States when the Civil War starts.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
400
The South was so upset about Lincoln's election in 1860 because he belonged to this political party.
What is the Republican Party
500
The Compromise of 1850 created this method of deciding if a territory would become a free or slave state.
What is popular sovereignty
500
These two politicians agreed that nationalism was the policy the United States should follow.
Who is Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
500
If a person aided a runaway slave, their punishment was.
What is a large fine and potential jail time.
500
I am the President of the Confederate States of America.