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100
The decades leading up to the Civil War are known by this term.
What is the antebellum period?
100
This Republican was elected President of the United States in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This 1820 agreement added a new slave state and a new free state to the Union, maintaining an equal balance.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
This 1822 event led to the passage of even harsher slave codes in South Carolina.
What is the Denmark Vesey Plot (or Denmark Vesey Rebellion)?
200
This term refers to the growing division between the north and south before the Civil War.
What is sectionalism?
200
This man's invention led to the growth of slavery and the plantation system in the southern states.
Who is Eli Whitney?
200
After gold was discovered there in 1849, this territory applied for statehood and was added as a free state by the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
200
This 1832 event almost led to armed conflict between the U.S. army and South Carolina, but was settled with a Compromise in 1833.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
300
This term refers to someone who wanted to outlaw slavery.
What is abolitionist?
300
This Missouri slave unsuccessfully sued his owner for freedom in a major 1857 Supreme Court case.
Who is Dred Scott?
300
The Underground Railroad became more active after this law was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act (or Fugitive Slave Law)?
300
This movement gained many supporters during the antebellum period, and included Quakers, runaway slaves, and other activists.
What is the abolitionist movement?
400
This is the belief that an individual state has the ability to reject a national law.
What is nullification?
400
This former slave was executed for planning a large slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822.
Who is Denmark Vesey?
400
This 1854 law allowed voters in 2 western territories to vote on whether or not to allow slavery there.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
This 1857 ruling stated that African Americans are not citizens and Congress has no power to limit the spread of slavery in new states.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
500
In 1860, South Carolina was the first southern state to break away from the Union; a process known as this.
What is Secession?
500
This South Carolina politician almost caused a Civil War back in 1832 when he said states have the right to nullify federal laws.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
500
Violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in 1854 gave this nickname to a western territory.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
500
This event caused South Carolina to call a convention and pass the Ordinance of Secession.
What is the Election of Abraham Lincoln (1860 Presidential election)?
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