person who offered a compromise to solve the differences in the north and south
Who is Henry Clay
100
Antislavery and pro-slavery groups both worked to get people to move here as quickly as possible.
What is Kansas?
100
Party was formed in 1854 by people opposed to the recently passed Kansas-Nebraska Act and soon Abraham Lincoln became a member.
What is the Republican Party?
100
He led the raid on Harpers Ferry
Who is John Brown?
100
Devotion to the interests of one region instead of to the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
200
The five things agreed upon to help settle regional disputes about slavery and expansion
What is Compromise of 1850
200
Antislavery settlers in Kansas were known as this.
What is free-soilers?
200
The Democrats chose him to run for president and he won.
What is James Buchanan?
200
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
200
Principle that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or permit slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
300
Looking out for the interests of your section of the country instead of doing what is best for the whole country
What is sectionalism?
300
John Brown and seven others killed five pro-slavery men in what became known as this.
What is the Pottawatomie Massacre?
300
He was a slave who took his case to the Supreme Court and sued for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
300
Even though he won the election, this man did not win a single southern state.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Incident in which abolitionists killed five slavery supporters.
What is the Pottawatomie Massacre?
400
The most popular antislavery novel
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
400
The 1854 this divided the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories in which the slavery question would be decided by popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
These debates established Abraham Lincoln as a gifted public speaker.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
400
The name of the of secede states.
What is the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy?
400
Supreme Court ruling that held that African Americans, whether slave or free, were not U.S. citizens under the U.S. Constitution
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
500
Law that made it a crime to assist runaway slaves and allowed slaves to be arrested even in areas where slavery was illegal
What is Fugitive Slave Law?
500
Representative Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner unconscious using this.
What is his cane?
500
In this , Stephen Douglas explained how, if Congress could not ban slavery from a federal territory, Congress could allow the citizens of that territory to ban it.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
500
This man was elected president of the Confederacy.