Key Terms
Key People
Political Causes
Social Causes
Secession
100
This state wanted to join the Union; it set in motion the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
100
This person won the Election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This idea means that the people in a territory should be able to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
This former slave sued for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
100
The attack on this fort launched the civil war.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This law split the Louisiana Purchase territory into two and resulted in violence over popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
200
Senator from Illinois who supported popular sovereignty.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
200
This is how many southern states Lincoln won in the election of 1860.
What is none?
200
This novel changed the opinion of many people in the North regarding slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
This state was the first to secede.
What is South Carolina?
300
To withdraw.
What is secession?
300
Led the raid on Harper's Ferry and was hanged for treason.
Who is John Brown?
300
In his first Inaugural Address, Lincoln called the Southerners this.
What is friends?
300
This event caused many in the South to send a congressman new canes.
What is the beating of Charles Sumner?
300
This is why the seven Southern states decided to secede.
What is the election of 1860?
400
This was made unconstitutional by the Dred Scott decision.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
This abolitionist actually supported the Dred Scott decision because he believed it would help many Northerners join the fight against slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
These are the four key features of the Compromise of 1850.
What is that California should come in as a free state, the slave trade should be banned in D.C., a strong fugitive slave law would be passed, and popular sovereignty would be used in the territories of the Mexican Cession?
400
This law required Northerners to assist in the capture of escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
400
The leader of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
The southern states that seceded call themselves this.
What is the Confederacy?
500
Gave a speech that included the line "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
Name three new political parties formed during the 1850s.
What is the Constitutional Union Party, the Republican Party, and the Free Soil Party?
500
He said this: "If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, I say, let it be done."
Who is John Brown?
500
This was the first major problem of Lincoln's presidency; it eventually set in motion the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
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