PEOPLE
The Republican candidate for President in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In 1854, Congress passed a law that allowed settlers in these territories to decide for themselves what to do about slavery, a concept known as popular sovereignty.
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
This law created an invisible line across the US; north of the line would be free, south would be slave.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Resulted in mass numbers of people moving west and California’s petitioning to become a free state.
What is the California Gold Rush?
These were the main economic differences between the North and the South.
What is the difference between agricultural (Southern) and industrial (Northern) economies?
Was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a rebellion at Harpers Ferry?
Who is John Brown?
What part of the country benefited from tariffs?
What is the North?
The policy that required all citizens to turn in runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The event(s) that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
The belief that America deserved to conquer the territories to the West and South.
What is Manifest Destiny?
He ran against Lincoln TWICE!
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Missouri Border Ruffians and Free Soilers settled here to try to influence the decision on slavery in this new state.
What is Kansas?
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to settle this issue.
What is Slavery in the Territories?
This event repealed the Missouri Compromise and changed the rules for determining whether there would be slavery in the territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The South's pride in their way of life could be considered a version of this.
What is sectionalism?
He was the chief proponent of the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! This free state joined the Union as part of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine?
This Supreme Court Decision threatened to allow slavery to spread throughout the Western Territories.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This event was viewed as courageous in the North and terrorism in the South.
What is John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry? OR
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
The right of people to make political decisions for themselves.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
He printed The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The Compromise of 1850 prohibited the slave-trade in this "state"
What is the District of Columbia?
This law determined popular sovereignty and eventually led to violence in Kansas.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
The war gave the United States territory in the West, including parts of NM and AZ
What is the Mexican-American War?
Plessey v. Fergusen legalized this concept after Reconstruction ended
What is "separate but equal"?