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100
This person was the President of the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
This compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
Name one of the two states admitted to the Union because of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine or Missouri.
100
This event enflamed passions both north and south
What is John Brown's raid?
100
What is a slave?
What is someone that must work with no pay against their will.
200
This person was the President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
What did the Fugitive Slave Act require states to do?
What is require northerners to return escaped slaves to a federal slave catcher so he can return the slave back to the south.
200
This state was admitted to the Union after the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
200
This election caused the Democratic party to split into 2 political parties
What is the Election of 1860?
200
What is an abolitionist?
Someone that believes Slavery is wrong
300
This woman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who are Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth?
300
The Kansas-Nebraska Act opened up the Kansas and Nebraska territories to slavery, what happened when people began establishing governments?
What is establish two governments, one pro-slavery and one anti-slavery. These two factions began to fight each other and caused "Bleeding Kansas" to occur.
300
What state joined the US after the Mexican-american War?
What is Texas?
300
The Lincoln-Douglass debates establish this doctrine
What is the Freeport Doctrine
300
What is a compromise?
What is an agreement to a fight/argument that makes both sides happy or makes both sides give something up
400
This man created the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator"
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
400
What was the result of the Dredd Scott trial?
What is No black person could be a citizen of the U.S., and that “no black person had any rights that a white person needed to honor.” Additionally, Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories and that the Missouri Compromise therefore was unconstitutional
400
John Brown led his raid in this town.
What is Harper's Ferry?
400
This network allowed escaped slaves find freedom
What is the Underground Railroad
400
What does Secede mean?
To break away form the whole
500
This woman wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
What is the name of the clause in the Constitution that talks about slaves?
What is the 3/5 compromise?
500
This is the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
500
How did Abraham Lincoln win the election of 1860?
What is Abraham Lincoln won because he got the majority of votes in the Electoral College.
500
What does emancipate/emancipation mean
What is free
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