Trouble in Kansas
This was the name newspapers call the violence that resulted from the failure of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to resolve the issue of slavery.
Bleeding Kansas
This man led a slave rebellion in which many White people and slaves were killed. After the rebellion, slaves faced harsher control.
Nat Turner
After this man won the election of 1860, Southern states started leaving the Union.
Abraham Lincoln
List at least one state that was a part of the Confederacy.
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Lincoln belonged to this political party.
Republican
This radical abolitionist's raids played an important role in increasing tensions between the North and the South.
John Brown
These people were against slavery and wanted to get rid of it in the United States.
Abolitionists
This was the first state to leave the Union.
South Carolina
This was the location of the first shot that started the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
Stephen Douglas belonged to this political party.
Democrat
This act allowed for popular sovereignty to determine the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Because of the case surrounding this man, the court ruled that African-Americans could not be citizens and that Congress could not restrict slavery from US territories.
Dred Scott
This is favoring the interests of one region over the interests of the entire country.
Sectionalism
These kinds of ships, a novel addition to warfare, were employed by both factions.
Ironclad
This political party was made by people who worried that slave labor would threaten the jobs of free workers and opposed the extension of slavery in the West.
Free Soil Party
John Brown led a raid on _____ in an attempt to steal weapons from a federal arsenal and start a slave rebellion.
This was a book which detailed the harshness of slavery. (provide title and author)
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
This was the name the southern states give themselves after leaving the Union
Confederate States of America / The Confederacy
Lincoln placed George B. McClellan in charge of the Union troops for this first battle of the Civil War.
First Battle of Bull Run
This allowed new territories to vote on whether they allowed slavery or not.
Popular Sovereignty
This man was beaten with a cane on the senate floor after speaking out about the tension around slavery in Kansas.
Charles Sumner
This included the following:
the admission of California into the Union as a free state
popular sovereignty for Utah and New Mexico
the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Law
Compromise of 1850
This is what it is called when a state withdraws from the Union.
Secession
This general created the Anaconda Plan.
Winfield Scott
This was created by Stephen Douglas and stated that popular sovereignty can overturn Supreme Court decisions.
Freeport Doctrine