Slavery
Politics in the 1850's
Civil War Begins
In the West
Election of 1860
100
An informal system helped thousands of people escape slavery.
What is The Underground Railroad?
100
This abolitionist took action against slavery by planning to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
100
The Confederates first attacked this Union fort, sparking the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
100

Name of the Compromise that drew a line at 36,30 and limited slavery to only territories south of this line?

What is the Missouri Compromise?

100
Two people who ran in the Election of 1860
Who was Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas?
200
A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe who has seen slavery happen first hand.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
200
In July of 1854 this political party was founded by members of the Free-Soil Party and a few antislavery Democrats.
What is the Republican Party?
200
The Lincoln Douglass Debates occurred during the 1858 Senate Race for which State?

What is Illinois?

200
These men came to look for gold in California.
Who are the forty-niners?
200
These two parties had major conflicts over the idea of slavery
What was the Democratic Party and Republican Party?
300
This act allowed slaveholders to seize African Americans they accused of having escaped slavery.
What is The Fugitive Slave Act?
300

This act split the Whig Party into pro-slavery Southern Whigs and antislavery Northern Whigs Left the issue of slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to be decided by popular sovereignty 

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

300
Lincoln imposed this in Maryland to keep military control of an area.
What is martial law?
300

What happened in 1860 that causes southern states to begin to secede from the Union?

What is the election of Abraham Lincoln as President?

300
Believed slavery to be morally wrong and opposed its spread into the territories.
What was Abraham Lincoln’s view on slavery?
400
The idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
400

On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled against Dred Scott, thus voiding this compromise which limited Westward expansion of slavery.

What is the Missouri Compromise?

400
These border states were crucial to keeping the Union intact.
What is Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland?
400
This term was used to describe the battle between antislavery Northerners and proslavery Southerners in Kansas.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
400
Believed people could still keep slavery out by refusing to pass the laws needed to regulate and enforce
What was Stephen Douglas’ view on slavery?
500

This Compromise admitted California as a free state, initiated the Fugitive Slave Acts, and made the decisions about Slavery in D.C

What was the Compromise of 1850?

500
This Illinois politician supported popular sovereignty.
What is Stephen Douglas?
500
The Confederate Congress responded to the Ordinance of Secession by moving the capital of the Confederacy to this city.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
500
This act settled Kansas and Nebraska while using popular sovereignty to determine whether the states are free or slave.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500

Name one of the Decisions made in the Dred Scott Decision. 

1. Black Citizens (living in free or slave states) are not considered citizens 

2. "Once Free, Always Free" does not have to be accepted 

3. Congress does not have the right to stop the expansion of slavery

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