In 1819 this state requested admission to the Union as a slave state, causing upset to the ratio of free/slave states.
What is Missouri
100
By the late 1820's the northern states were becoming more industrialized while the southern states relied on
What is agriculture
100
What state was admitted the 16th free state in the Union under the Compromise of 1850
What is California
100
Published in 1852, this anti-slavery novel helped pave the road to the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
100
In 1861 Abraham Lincoln was elected the ______ President of the United States.
What is 16th
200
This state was granted admission to the Union as a free state to balance Missouri's admission as a slave state.
What is Maine
200
Congress placed this tax on imports that benefited northern producers of cloth and textiles.
What is a Tarriff
200
Under the Compromise of 1850 these two southern states were to have no restrictions placed on slavery.
What is New Mexico and Utah
200
Uncle Tom's Cabin helped fuel this party's' movement in the years leading up to the Civil War
What is The Abolitionists
200
In 1863 He issued the ____________ that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy .
What is The Emancipation Proclamation
300
An imaginary line was drawn across this region, separating the free and slave states within the Union.
What is The Louisiana Territory
300
The name southerns gave to the taxes placed on British imports benefiting the norther industry in 1828.
What is The Tariff of Abominations
300
This state lost it's property in New Mexico but was compensated $10 million dollars.
What is Texas
300
Which President said to Harriet Beecher Stowe, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."
What is Abraham Lincoln
300
Lincoln is credited with building the ________ party into a strong national organization.
What is Republican
400
This Missouri Compromise was repealed by this Act, which established popular sovereignty regarding slavery in Kansas and Nebraska, though both were north of the compromise line.
What is The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
400
A legal theory that a state has the right to invalidate any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional.
What is Nullification
400
Under the Compromise, slavery was maintained in this area but future slave trading was abolished.
What is Washington D.C.
400
In what country did Uncle Tom's Cabin sell even more copies than in the states?
What is Great Britain
400
In this speech, he invoked the principles of human equality contained in the Declaration of Independence and connected the sacrifices of the Civil War with the desire for “a new birth of freedom,”
What is The Gettysburg Address
500
This case declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
What is The Dred Scott Case
500
This legislature was enacted into law on November 24, 1832. As far as South Carolina was concerned, there was no tariff.
What is The South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
500
This law required all northerners to return runaway slaves to their southern owners.
What is The Fugitive Slave Law
500
Harriet Beecher Stowe most sympathized with these people due to the death of her child at a young age.
What is enslaved mothers
500
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by ___________ at the Ford's Theater.