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This person's raid at Harper's Ferry further alienated North and South.
Who is John Brown?
This slave sued for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
This novel described the brutality of slavery and led more women to the abolitionist cause.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This person was inaugurated in 1861.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
To secede means this.
What is to voluntarily leave the Union?
Northerners were opposed to the Fugitive Slave Act for this reason.
What is they didn't want to assist with the capture of escaped slaves?
This person was known as The Great Compromiser.
Who is Henry Clay?
An attack on this fort is considered the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
Widespread violence between pro and anti-slavery settlers led to this territory being known as this.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This is the name of the seceding states.
What is the Confederate States of America?
The South threatened to secede if this state was admitted to the Union as a free state.
What is California?
This man won a Senate seat against Lincoln, and lost the presidency to Lincoln.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This Act formed two new territories and was due in part for a wish to extend the railroad.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This person famously said "a house divided against itself cannot stand."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Idea that each territory could decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Chief Justice Roger Taney gave this reason for not ruling in Dred Scott's favor.
What is Scott can't be free because he is not a citizen and because slaves are property, slave-owners are protected under Constitution?
This Californian was the Republican Party's first presidential candidate.
Who is John C Fremont?
This was an attempt put forward by Henry Clay to unite the North and South.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The Compromise of 1850 benefitted the North in these ways.
What is admitted CA as free state and banned slave trade in Washington, DC?
Political party formed by anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats.
What is the Free Soil Party?
This was a political party formed by anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats who did not want land gained in the Mexican-American War to allow slavery
What is the Free Soil Party?
The name of the defendant in the Dred Scott case.
Who is Sandford?
This decision made the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
The Compromise of 1850 benefitted the South in these ways.
What is allowed popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession and tough new fugitive slave law?
This proposal banned slavery in all territory that might become part of US as a result of Mexican-American War, but never passed Congress.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?