Uncompromising on the abolition of slavery, he owned the newspaper, The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
100
In 1820, this prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30' parallel, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
The royal name for the South's major cash crop.
What is "King Cotton"?
100
Created from the western region of a slave state, this territory entered the Union in 1863 as a free state.
What is West Virginia?
100
“A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
A senator of South Carolina, he advocated the Doctrine of Nullification.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
200
This 1854 Act allowed what two territories to use popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery within their borders?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
This border war involved anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians" from 1854-1861.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
Lincoln claimed, "I hope to have God on my side, but I must have (this state)"
What is Kentucky?
200
Giving the toast, "The Union, next to our liberties, most dear!" this senator supported nullification.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
300
He is known as "The Great Compromiser."
Who is Henry Clay?
300
These were passed in response to the Fugitive Slave Act.
What are the Northern Liberty Laws?
300
This is a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
300
Known as the border states, these four did not secede from the Union.
What are Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri?
300
“No rights which the white man was bound to respect" was stated by this justice in the Dred Scott decision.
Who is Roger Taney?
400
According to Lincoln, she is the "little lady who started this big war."
Who is Harriett Beecher Stowe?
400
In 1846 this proposed slavery could not be in any land gained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
400
A faction of the Whig Party noted for their moral opposition to slavery.
What are "conscience Whigs"?
400
The first southern state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
400
"One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended" is from this inaugural address.
What is Lincoln's first (1861) inaugural address?
500
A former slave who published the North Star newspaper aided the cause of abolition.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
500
This 1819 amendment to a bill requested Missouri be admitted to the Union as a free state.
What is the Talmadge Amendment?
500
Opposed Catholics and immigrants who were entering Northern cities in the 1840s and 1850s.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
500
Chosen because of its largest slave population, this state is the location of Harper's Ferry.