1.) ______________ being admitted as a free state.
What is California?
100
The majority of slave states seceded from the Union. They became known as the _________________.
What is Confederate States of America?
200
runaway or trying to run away
What is fugitive?
200
Missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas's election during the election of Mid-1850s
Who are border ruffians?
200
The __________________ contained the 5 main points of Henry Clay's plan.
What is Compromise of 1850?
200
2.) New Mexico Territory would have no restrictions on ________________.
What is slavery?
200
______________________ was a U.S. for t island that guarded Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. This was where the Civil War started.
What is Fort Sumter?
300
Conflict between opposing groups of citizens of the same country
What is civil war?
300
loyalty to a region
What is sectionalism?
300
The ________________ required all citizens to catch runaways. Anyone who aided a fugitive could be fined or imprisoned.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
300
3.) New Mexico-_____________ border dispute would be settled in favor of New Mexico.
What is Texas?
300
__________________________ won the Election of 1860 representing the Republican Party. He had mixed thoughts towards the relationship between the Northerners and Southerners.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
Person who sacrifices his or her life for a principle or cause
Who is martyr?
400
withdrawal from the Union
What is secession?
400
The _________________ was a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to the freedom in the North.
What is Underground Railroad?
400
4.) Slave trade would be _____________ in the District of Columbia.
What is abolished?
400
_____________________was the official start of the Civil War. (date)
What is April 12, 1861?
500
rights and powers independent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by the Constitution.
What is states' rights?
500
Before the Civil War, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there
What is popular sovereignty?
500
______________ was an enslaved African American that was bought by an army doctor in Missouri, a slave state and then the doctor moved to Illinois, a free state. _______________ sued for freedom because he lived on free soil.
Who is Dred Scott?
500
5.) Stronger ________________ __________ laws.
What is Fugitive Slave?
500
The ______________________ balanced the amount of free states and slave states. Missouri became a slave state; Maine admitted as a free state.