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Vocabulary
100
This was an unsuccessful attempt in Congress to ban slavery in any territory gained from the war with Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
100
This law allowed Southerners to recapture slaves and force Northerners to help them in the process.
What is The Fugitive Slave Law Act?
100
This political party was formed by Northern Whigs, Democrats and various abolition groups who opposed the spread of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
100
These are statements of a political party's beliefs and ideas.
What is a platform?
100
The confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union.
What is the Confederate States of America?
200
This political party, formed in 1848, was dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
200
This law called for the residents of the Kansas and Nebraska territories to vote and decide the issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
This individual was an explorer and national hero, and became the Republican Party's candidate for President in 1856.
Who was John C. Frémont?
200
This individual's platform in the election of 1860 called for popular sovereignty to decide on slavery in territories.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas (Democrat)?
200
The model for political debates.
What are the Lincoln/Douglas debates?
300
This individual created a plan to settle the issue of statehood for California that satisfied both Northerners and Southerners.
Who is Henry Clay?
300
White Southerners claimed that this book did not portray slavery accurately.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
This individual won the election of 1856 by not talking about slavery, but instead promoting keeping the Union together.
Who was James Buchanan?
300
The election of 1860 was unique because of this.
What is 4 candidates running for President, including 2 from the same political party (Democrats). What is the election really being about 2 different races being run (Lincoln vs. Douglas in North and Breckenridge vs. Bell in the South).
300
An 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal.
What is Dred Scott V. Sanford?
400
Provisions of the Compromise of 1850 that benefited the North and the South
What is North gets California as a free state and slave trade gets abolished in Washington, DC. What is South gets Fugitive Slave Law Act and Congress agrees to not pass laws on slavery in newly acquired territories.
400
This individual murdered several pro-slavery settlers in Kansas.
Who was John Brown?
400
His lawsuit to gain freedom was denied in a landmark Supreme Court decision.
Who was Dred Scott?
400
This individual proposed to stop the expansion of slavery into the Western territories, but allow it to continue where it already was.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
400
The author of a novel in 1852 that portrayed slavery to be brutal and immoral.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
These two individuals had the job of winning approval in Congress for the Compromise of 1850. (Name 1)
Who is Stephen A. Douglas and Daniel Webster?
500
A system where the residents vote to decide an issue.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
Reasons why Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott.
What is Dred Scott was not a U.S. citizen, therefore he could not sue in a federal court. What is Dred Scott was born in Missouri and bound by states' slave code laws. What is Dred Scott is considered property of a slave owner.
500
This individual was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
500
To withdraw or to leave.
What is secede?
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