The North favored this document, which would illegalize slavery in new territories.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
100
She was the most active ‘conductor’ of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This party was known for favoring of native-born citizens over immigrants, or ‘nativism.’
Who is the Know-Nothing Party?
100
This term was the name for the band of rebel states who withdrew from the Union, igniting the American Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
100
This former general would succeed James K. Polk as president.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
200
This is the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
What is secession?
200
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book, championed by abolitionists for its message about slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
200
This party opposed extension of slavery into the new territories, and nominated Martin Van Buren in the election of 1848.
Who is the Free-Soil Party?
200
These two candidates for the Illinois Senate debated slavery in the new territories.
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas?
200
This was the charge that the perpetrator of the Harper's Ferry raid would be hanged for.
What is (high) treason?
300
These two men were the faces of the debate over the Compromise of 1850.
Who are John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster?
300
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this act called for Northerners to return fugitive slaves with a monetary incentive, as well as denying fugitives right to a trial by jury.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
Founded in 1854, this party opposed extension of slavery into new territories, and nominated John C. Frémont in the election of 1856.
Who is the Republican Party?
300
As the underdog in the Republican convention, this man won the nomination, much to the dismay of Southerners.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
As a provision of the Compromise of 1850, the sale of slaves was banned here, but slavery was still allowed to continue.
What is the District of Columbia (DC)?
400
Succeeding President Taylor, he embraced the Compromise of 1850 as the ‘final settlement’ of the slavery crisis.
Who is Millard Fillmore?
400
Being misinformed on the loss of life in a proslavery raid on Lawrence, Kansas, this fiery abolitionist led an assault on Pottawatomie Creek, savagely killing 5 men.
Who is John Brown?
400
Because of his absence during the majority of the Kansas-Nebraska debates, this 1856 Democratic candidate was not favored by the North or the South.
Who is James Buchanan?
400
This Supreme Court decision overturned the Missouri Compromise, allowing for the expansion of slavery into the North.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
400
This superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy was fearful for the South's survival if they left the Union and sparked civil war.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
500
Provisions of Henry Clay's 1850 compromise included this, the idea that residents of new territories should be the ones voting on slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
After giving a speech condemning the violent efforts of proslavery activists in Kansas, this senator would be severely beaten with a cane 3 days later by Congressman Preston S. Brooks.
Who is Charles Sumner?
500
This democratic candidate won the presidency in 1852, but didn't actually do that much while in office.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
500
A referendum in this Kansas town allowed the citizens to vote on the proposed proslavery constitution; they voted against it, twice.
What is Lecompton?
500
This was the biblical quote Lincoln used in his Senate nomination address.
What is “A house divided against itself cannot stand?”