Compromises
Abolitionists
Words
Immediate causes
People
100
As new states came into the Union, Congress wanted to keep a balance between these.
What are free states and slave states?
100
The book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
To withdraw from; or leave the Union.
What is secede?
100
This was the result of the Kansas Nebraska Act. John Brown helped get it started.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"? Bloody Kansas
100
Members of this political party wanted to stop the spread of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
200
When Missouri came in as a slave state, this state came in as a free state.
What is Maine?
200
William Lloyd Garrison published a newspaper called this.
What is The Liberator?
200
This regiment from South Carolina fought in the War with Mexico.
What is the Palmetto Regiment?
200
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves are this.
What is property?
200
This group in South Carolina was against secession.
What is the Unionists?
300
As a part of the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was outlawed here.
What is Washington, DC?
300
He was an escaped slave who wrote the story of his life.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
You should "remember" that William Barret Travis died at this place in Texas.
What is the Alamo?
300
John Brown raided the federal arsenal in order to start this.
What is a slave uprising?
300
This group wanted to secede but only if other southern states seceded.
What is the Cooperationists?
400
California came in as a free state, two years after this was discovered there.
What is gold?
400
These abolitionists were Quakers and were born in South Carolina.
Who were the Grimke sisters?
400
Secessionists like Robert Barnwell Rhett were called this.
What is "fire eaters"?
400
After John Brown's raid, Southerners organized these for their protection.
What are militias?
400
This South Carolinian beat Charles Sumner with a cane in the U.S. Senate.
Who is Brooks? (Preston Brooks)
500
This act (law) required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
500
He led a raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
500
The idea that it was God's plan for the United States to stretch from sea to sea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
His election in 1860 caused the secession of South Carolina.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
This South Carolinian proposed a Constitutional amendment to create two Presidents; one for the North and one for the South.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
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