Term for allowing residents of a state to vote on the issue of slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
Political party formed due to the weak stance taken by the Whigs and Democrats to prevent the spread of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
100
This was the first state to secede from the Union
What is South Carolina?
100
Admitting California as a free state gave free states a advantage in the Senate and led to this solution.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
The book that convinced many Northerns that to oppose slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
The legislation that the Kansas-Nebraska Act voided.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
Court case that denied Congress the power to control slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sandford?
200
Location of John Brown's attempt to inspire a slave revolt.
What is Harper's Ferry, VA?
200
Nickname for the battles over slavery in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
The name for the southern states that succeeded.
What are the Confederate States of America?
300
The two parts to the Compromise of 1850 that appeased the North.
What are abolish the slave trade in Washington D.C. and admit CA as a free state?
300
The section of the country that relied on imported goods.
What is the South?
300
Southerners supported this idea because they feared that federal authorities might take away the right to own slaves as they had in the Northwest Ordinance and the Missouri Compromise north of the 36' 30 . Southerners preferred this idea of government which was based on the Articles of Confederation.
What are states' rights?
300
Supreme Court justice for the Dred Scott decision.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
300
Many abolitionists ignored the Fugitive Slave Act and supported this route to led slaves to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
He proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
Northerns feared southerners wanted to expand slavery into this territory which was aquired after he Mexican War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
400
In his first inaugural adress, President Lincoln stated this was his primary goal.
What is preserve the union?
400
This led to two opposing governments in Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
The number of southern states Abraham Lincoln won in the Election of 1860?
What is zero?
500
The purpose of the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is to settle disputes over the spread of slavery to western territories?
500
The reason that many runaway slaves fled to Canada instead of staying in northern states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
500
Southern Democrat candidate for president in the Election of 1860.
Who is John Breckinridge?
500
Town burned by slave supporters over disputed vote for slavery in Kansas.
What is Lawrence, KS?
500
This grew Lincoln's popularity in the Republican Party.