Compromises
Parties
Expansion
Slavery
Miscellaneous
100
Why was it problematic for California to join the Union?
Would unbalance the Senate
100
What party was formed to oppose the growing political power of immigrants?
Know-Nothing Party
100
During the 1850s, in which territory was the most blood spilled over slavery?
"Bleeding" Kansas
100
What was the most popular anti-slavery novel of the 1850s?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
100
What was one way people evaded the Fugitive Slave Act?
Underground railroad
200
Name the two senators who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850
Stephen Douglas and Henry Clay
200
Which person could be considered the "father" of the Republican party?
Abraham Lincoln
200
What document said that any territory acquired from Mexico would be free?
Wilmot Proviso
200
Policy that allowed settlers of each territory to vote on slavery
Popular Sovreignty
200
True or False: In 1860, Lincoln stated that slavery should immediately be abolished
False
300
The Dred Scott ruling overturned this compromise
Missouri Compromise
300
Who won the Illinois senate seat in 1858?
Stephen Douglass
300
The document that advised the US to seize Cuba from Spain if it could not be purchased
Ostend Manifesto
300
True or false: John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry led to widespread slave rebellion.
False
300
The site of the first official battle in the Civil War
Fort Sumter
400
Name all four provisions of the Compromise of 1850.
Fugitive Slave Act, CA as a free state, popular sovereignty in territory from Mexico, slave trade outlawed in DC
400
What issue caused a split in the Democratic party at its 1860 national convention?
Support for slavery in the territories
400
Site of John Brown's first act of violence
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
400
What was Stephen Douglas's position on slavery in the territories?
Popular sovereignty, later the Freeport Doctrine
400
How did the Supreme Court justify ruling against Dred Scott?
Slaves are property and under the 5th amendment Congress must protect property.
500
The final attempt at compromise before the Civil War
The proposed Crittenden Amendments to the Constitution
500
This senator was brutally attacked in the Senate Chamber, much to the joy of the South
Charles Sumner
500
The site of the first gold strike in California
Sutter's Fort/ Sutter's Mill
500
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who wrote the majority opinion for the Dred Scott case?
Roger Taney
500
What did Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott have in common?
Both were military leaders in the Mexican War
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