This political party wanted the land gained in Mexican American War to be free of slavery.
What is the Free Soil Party
100
This abolitionist wrote the bestselling book "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
100
Name of the slave who tried to sue for his freedom, but was denied by the Supreme Court.
Who is Dred Scott
100
This man won the presidential election of 1860, causing southern states to leave the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
100
Another word for "withdraw." What southern states did from the Union in 1860.
What is secede
200
When people in individual states vote on issues for themselves instead of having politicians vote for them. In this chapter, it dealt with the issue slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty
200
In 1854, this law undid the Missouri Compromise and said that two new territories could be open to slavery if settlers voted for it.
What is the Kansas - Nebraska Act
200
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who denied Dred Scott his freedom
Who is Roger B. Taney
200
This was the new name of the southern states who broke away and formed their own country.
What is the Confederate States of America
200
Another word for a runaway slave
What is fugitive
300
This proposal never actually became law, but it proposed that Congress ban slavery in all territories gained by Mexican American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso
300
This law let California join the Union as a free state, banned slavery in Washington DC, let people in other states vote on the issue of slavery, and set a fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850
300
Democrat from Illinois who ran against Abraham Lincoln for Senate in 1858. (Lincoln __________Debates.)
Who is Stephen Douglas
300
Name of the fort in South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
What is Fort Sumter
300
False or misleading information that is used to further a cause. What southerners thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was.
What is propoganda
400
Name of an earlier compromise that had quieted the slavery problem, but not solved the issue.
What is the Compromise of 1820
400
This man was a violent abolitionist from Connecticut who helped get Kansas the nickname "Bleeding Kansas."
Who is John Brown
400
This abolitionist was driven out of Kansas for his violent actions, but later attacked the town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown
400
The main thing the southern states wanted to keep in their society that they thought Abraham Lincoln would take away from them after he was elected president
What is slavery
400
A war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country
What is a civil war
500
Name of the war in which the United States had gained the territory that some people wanted to make slave states and some wanted to make free states.
What is the Mexican American War
500
This senator from Kentucky proposed and got the Compromise of 1850 to become law
Who is Henry Clay
500
Name of the new political party that did not support slavery. Abe Lincoln was a member.
What is the Republican Party
500
From Mississippi, he was the first president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis
500
People in territories would vote directly on issues, rather than have politicians do it for them